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A new journal purports to improve the publishing process through open access and public peer review, but it was co-founded by researchers who challenged the U.S. response to COVID-19 — including President Trump’s pick to lead the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD.
Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, PhD, have founded the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, where “good scientists can publish whatever their studies conclude,” Kulldorff said in a post on X.
Kulldorff reported the backdrop for launching the journal in a perspective, charging that commercial publishers have a corner on the market, with universities paying “an enormous amount of money for journals that contain articles that are both written and peer reviewed by their own scientists, which they provide to journals for free.”
“As a result, scientific journal publishers have huge profit margins reaching almost 40%,” Kulldorff stated in the perspective.
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This is a MedPage Today story.
A new journal purports to improve the publishing process through open access and public peer review, but it was co-founded by researchers who challenged the U.S. response to COVID-19 — including President Trump’s pick to lead the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD.
Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, PhD, have founded the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, where “good scientists can publish whatever their studies conclude,” Kulldorff said in a post on X.
Kulldorff reported the backdrop for launching the journal in a perspective, charging that commercial publishers have a corner on the market, with universities paying “an enormous amount of money for journals that contain articles that are both written and peer reviewed by their own scientists, which they provide to journals for free.”
“As a result, scientific journal publishers have huge profit margins reaching almost 40%,” Kulldorff stated in the perspective.
Unlike traditional publishing,…
