Influence

Still, there’s reason to think Coalition S will make an outsize impact. In 2017, 35% of papers published in Nature and 31% of those in Science cited at least one coalition member as a funding source. “The people who get [Coalition S] funding are very prominent scientists,” Rooryck says. “We punch above our weight.” The Nature and Cell Press families of journals announced in recent weeks that they would allow authors to publish papers outside their paywall, for hefty fees.