Publishing addiction science – A guide for the perplexed.

An Idea Whose Time Has ComeThe development of this book had many complex motives but a single purpose.The motives include improving scientific integrity in the field of addiction studies, sharing information with junior investigators, and strengthening addiction specialty journals.The single purpose of this volume, however, is to provide a practical guide to scientific publishing in the addiction field that is used often enough to affect personal decisions, individual careers, institutional policies, and the progress of science.The time is ripe for such an ambitious undertaking: The field of addiction research has grown tremendously in recent years and has spread to new parts of the world.With that growth has come a concomitant increase in competition among researchers, new bureaucratic regulations, and a growing interest in addiction research by health agencies, policy-makers, treatment and prevention specialists, and the alcohol industry.New professional societies, research centers, and university programs have taken root, and regulatory responsibilities such as conflict of interest declarations, human and animal subjects assurances, and the monitoring of scientific misconduct are now common.The journal-publishing enterprise, the main organ of scientific communication in the field, has an important role to play in all of these developments, and