By guaranteeing publication in advance, we also eliminate the incentive for researchers to massage their data in the first place.
Now, there are arguments that the RAE encourages the wrong sort of work - low-risk, guaranteed publication stuff.
If the scientific question and methods are deemed sound, the authors are then offered "in-principle acceptance" of their article, which virtually guarantees publication regardless of how the results turn out.
In 1993, Padura's second Conde novel, "Vientos de Cuaresma," won an UNEAC prize that guaranteed publication, and Prieto began pushing to have the first, rejected book printed as well.
Whether we then reach out to a writer and ask for a piece, or take on something that was submitted to us, all articles are written on spec – no article is guaranteed publication.
The contract guaranteed publication rights to the authors.
With iPS cells, sncRNAs, chromatin modification regulation and cancer stem cells already cooling off again, i.e. not being guaranteed publications in the 'ultimate' journals anymore, what will be very soon the new red-hot (or super-cool, i.e. anything but lukewarm) 'kid on the block'?
But good science alone doesn't guarantee prompt publication in a good journal.
For new books, a legislation to guarantee the publication of accessible editions of every published book would ensure accessible material for the future, since publishers have electronic versions of their books.
Questions about the length of time Greenwald communicated with Snowden have arisen since Barton Gellman suggested in The Washington Post on Sunday that the source approached Greenwald only in recent weeks -- and only after he had approached the Post with materials related to the NSA's top-secret PRISM program and the paper refused to guarantee their full publication.
