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Our future, we decide: five ways to reform the scientific publication process

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Although science is becoming ever more complex, interdisciplinary and open, the scientific publication process has largely remained static, which affects the integrity and impact of articles. At the 2023 Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy Postdoc Summit, we identified five aspects of this process that need attention to enable reform.

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Fig. 1: Postdoctoral researchers weigh in with five ways to reform the scientific publication process.

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We are grateful to the Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy, who supported this group of early-career researchers in diabetes mellitus and endocrinology to challenge current paradigms and go beyond the 2023 Summit to bring these ideas to the scientific community and the public. We especially thank G. Repasky, T. Christensen and P. Nielsen for their unwavering support.

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  1. The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Morten Dall, Antonia Hufnagel, Jessica M. Preston & Pearlyn J. Y. Toh

  2. Novo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark

    Katharina Herzog

  3. Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

    Daniel B. Ibsen & Benjamin Lebiecka-Johansen

  4. Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Daniel B. Ibsen

  5. Department of Nutrition, Sports and Exercise, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Daniel B. Ibsen

  6. MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK

    Daniel B. Ibsen

  7. University of Southern Denmark, Functional Genomics and Metabolism Unit, Department for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Odense, Denmark

    Philip M. M. Ruppert

  8. Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Pearlyn J. Y. Toh

  9. Centre for Physical Activity Research, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Christina Yfanti

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Dall, M., Herzog, K., Hufnagel, A. et al. Our future, we decide: five ways to reform the scientific publication process. Nat Rev Endocrinol 21, 5–6 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-024-01056-x

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