Editorial Editorial: A Lasting Impact

The information age has brought radical changes to scien-tific publishing. There are far more ways to get a piece of research out into the world, including non–peer-reviewed sources such as arXiv.org, fully open-access publications such as the PLOS family of journals, and open-access options from traditional journals such as the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE). At the same time, the explosion of pa-pers (and predatory journals (1–3)) has increased the need for curation of the vast amount of information available. Even fil-tered and democratized by searches on PubMe