- Published: April 2, 2015
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004084
Citation: Roberts RJ (2015) Ten Simple Rules to Win a Nobel Prize. PLoS Comput Biol 11(4): e1004084. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004084
Editor: Philip E. Bourne, National Institutes of Health, United States of America
Published: April 2, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Richard J. Roberts. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Funding: The author received no specific funding for this article.
Competing interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist.
Preface
by Philip E. Bourne, National Institutes of Health, Founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology
When receiving a draft of the article “Ten Simple Rules for Writing a PLOS Ten Simple Rules Article” [1], not only had we come full circle in terms of professional development, but also I knew the series was a success. Since that article was published in October 2014, two more articles have been published, and this will be the third: a total of 44 in all. Rule 2 in what I shall affectionately call the 102 article [1] suggested you need a novel topic and suggested winning a Nobel Prize was such a topic. As I hinted in my editorial comments to the 102 article, I would take up the challenge in soliciting such an article. Rich Roberts was the first person to come to mind, partly because he is a good sport, partly because we share an interest in open (to be interpreted here as candid) science, and of course because he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Phillip Sharp) in 1993 for work on gene structure.
At first he was reluctant and slightly insulted, making me think I should write “Ten Simple Rules for How Not to Insult a Nobel Laureate.” The rationale is that we should not be encouraging scientists to think about science through awards but through having fun and the desire to do their best science. That should be enough. The result is exactly that—having a bit of fun and making some important points all at once. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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