Research: What makes an eLife paper in epidemiology and global health?

Research: What makes an eLife paper in epidemiology and global health?

What makes a good paper in epidemiology and global health, two disciplines that so “sit squarely on the boundary between the natural, clinical and social sciences”?

“Earlier this year an editorial explained what eLife editors look for in a paper: ‘For us, the ideal eLife paper presents an accurate description of data that makes others in the field think differently and moves the field forward’ (Malhotra and Marder, 2015). Here we outline how this applies to papers in epidemiology and global health.”