A Science Paper Is …

Aspiring authors of SCIENCE papers successfully run the gauntlet of our reviewers and editors only a small fraction of the time. In some of the more competitive fields, only about 10% of submitted papers are published. As a result, many ask us what distinguishes an accepted paper from the often excellent work we feel we cannot publish. Our “Information for Contributors” (see SCIENCE, 5 January 1996; on the World Wide Web, the address is...