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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Journal Bars Tobacco-Backed Research Papers

PLoS Medicine announced a new editorial policy this month:

"While we continue to be interested in analyses of ways of reducing tobacco use, we will no longer be considering papers where support, in whole or in part, for the study or the researchers comes from a tobacco company."

PLoS Medicine is a open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Public Library of Sciences

Read the whole policy
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