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Edited by Karen S. Cook, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved January 18, 2018 (received for review August 30, 2017)
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- Published in issue March 13, 2018.
- Published first February 27, 2018.
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- Marcia K. McNutta,1,
- Monica Bradfordb,
- Jeffrey M. Drazenc,
- Brooks Hansond,
- Bob Howarde,
- Kathleen Hall Jamiesonf,
- Véronique Kiermerg,
- Emilie Marcush,
- Barbara Kline Popei,2,
- Randy Schekmanj,k,
- Sowmya Swaminathanl,
- Peter J. Stangm, and
- Inder M. Verman
- aNational Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC 20001;
- bScience Journals, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC 20005;
- cNew England Journal of Medicine, Boston, MA 02115;
- dAmerican Geophysical Union, Washington, DC 20009;
- eSAGE Publishing, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320;
- fAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104;
- gPLOS (Public Library of Science), San Francisco, CA 94111;
- hCell Press, Cambridge, MA 02139;
- iThe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC 20418;
- jUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
- keLife, Cambridge CB2 1JB, United Kingdom;
- lNature Research, San Francisco, CA 94104;
- mUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112;
- nSalk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA 92037
Edited by Karen S. Cook, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved January 18, 2018 (received for review August 30, 2017)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: NASPresident{at}nas.edu.
↵2Present address: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 21218.
Author contributions: M.K.M., M.B., J.M.D., B. Hanson, B. Howard, K.H.J., V.K., E.M., B.K.P., R.S., S.S., P.J.S., and I.M.V. designed research; M.B., J.M.D., B. Hanson, K.H.J., V.K., E.M., B.K.P., S.S., and I.M.V. conducted review and editing; K.H.J. provided funding acquisition, project administration, and resources; and M.K.M. and K.H.J. wrote the paper.
Conflict of interest statement: M. McNutt is president of the National Academy of Sciences, the publisher of PNAS. I.V. was Editor-in-chief of PNAS until January 1, 2018. V.K. serves as Chair of the ORCID Board of Directors in a volunteer capacity. Several authors' employers are ORCID member organizations.
Marcia McNutt, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0117-7716; 
Monica Bradford, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2440-649X; 
Jeffrey Drazen, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2715-9890; 
Brooks Hanson, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6230-7145; 
Bob Howard, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3774-6896; 
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4167-3688; 
Véronique Kiermer, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8771-7239; 
Emilie Marcus, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4806-6503; 
Barbara Kline Pope, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0575-3605; 
Randy Schekman, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8615-6409; 
Sowmya Swaminathan, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0285-4910; 
Peter Stang, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2307-0576; 
Inder Verma https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4059-075XThis article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
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