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Stephen Downes

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I feel this. It seems to me there is an opportunity for an application that automatically formats scientific publications, so people don't have to do it. "Our results suggest that each manuscript costs 14 hours, or US$477 to format for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. This represents a loss of 52 hours or a cost of US$1,908 per person-year." By contrast, I spend virtually no time formatting these posts, my blog posts, photo pages, or whatever.

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