Update on Scientists Being Held Accountable for Impact of Research

I recently wrote a news blog on the dangers of researchers being advocates for their own work. Readers may be interested in an article from an authoritative source that I chanced upon recently, published in BMC Medicine (Whitty JM. What Makes an Academic Paper Useful for Health Policy? BMC Med. 2015; 10: 301).

— Richard Lilford, CLAHRC WM Director