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Government-funded journal seen by some as waste of grant money

Nature Medicine volume 17, page 236 (2011)Cite this article

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This summer, California's $3 billion stem cell agency is scheduled to launch a state-subsidized open-access research journal. With a $600,000 taxpayer-backed starting fund, the publication is intended as a forum for translational scientists and regulators geared toward moving stem cell–based therapies to the clinic. But with more than a dozen stem cell–focused journals already crowding library shelves and a limited agency budget, many critics wonder whether this is the best use of government research dollars.

“They need to demonstrate a need, and I don't think they have done that,” says John Simpson, stem cell project director of Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group based in Santa Monica, California.

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Pflumm, M. Government-funded journal seen by some as waste of grant money. Nat Med 17, 236 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0311-236a

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