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David Flood

H-index: 24
Medicine 31%
Public Health 23%
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It is a volume play at the mid tier journals at for profit publishers. They turf admin load to authors, keep costs low, and willing to sacrifice some manuscript attrition. It's a business model where you are the customer and also the labor.
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It is a race to the bottom while publishing companies drive down costs and try to extract more from authors to maintain their very high profit margins.
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At a BMJ family journal, we had a manuscript repeatedly bounced back because the submission system did not auto detect all of the authors on a long author list. So they requested submit cumbersome form to “change authors”, signed by all authors, even though the manuscript shows no such change made.
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Journals are increasingly offshoring or AI-ing the gate keeping “quality control” functions before an editor even sees the manuscript.

It is so incredibly frustrating to get one’s manuscript bounced back for totally ridiculous and trivial issues. And it is impossible to get the journals to budge
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I think the key thing to remember is that the house R’s have little leverage to try to push through Trump’s NIH budget. The D’s can filibuster any cut in the senate and just look to a CR. And senate R’s have already demonstrated they will not go along either with Trump’s budget
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She was a truly remarkable person... her intellect, empathy, and moral clarity. No one else like her. Happy b-day Shekinah.
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From Peter Drucker's memoir, "Adventures of a Bystander:"

Drucker was a Lecturer at Frankfurt University in February 1933 when this took place, roughly 1 month after Hitler took power.
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@minnajohansson.bsky.social Thanks for writing this paper. Too many people overstate the benefit and understate the opportunity costs of promoting of individual behavior change in primary care.

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