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I WISH to direct attention to the large amount of scientific work carried out at the public expense but only reported in brief summary terms or published after long delay. This may be due in part to habits acquired in war-time, when the scientist was too busy to prepare papers for publication and the journals so restricted that they could not accept them. It is due also to the dangerous custom of writing a number of progress reports which are circulated within groups of Government committees in stencil: the authors frequently do not face the labour of preparing a paper of the type which a conscientious editor would accept.
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BUXTON, P. Failure to Publish Scientific Results. Nature 173, 410 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173410a0
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