Thursday, 27 October 2011

Judging a scientific journal by its cover

This doesn't happen every day....  
The pile of journals that I wanted to read was already too high and the 6 October 2011 issue of Nature had just arrived.  So I placed Nature beside the pile, turned to grab my sandwich, and then reached to open this new issue.  I realized, however, I had opened The Biochemist.  So I closed The Biochemist and there it was, the same cover on Nature and on The Biochemist. 

Well not quite the same cover, if one has an eye for gels or electropherograms, one will see that lanes 6-11 on the Nature cover are the same as lanes 1-6 on The Biochemist cover.  Back to the important part.... reading the contents. 

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