Faced with what he calls "an explosion of scientific publications", Clifford Rosen notes the need for researchers to publish as much as possible, especially in journals with a high impact factor. "But you don't necessarily need to publish in 'top' journals to have scientific progress" - he explains -, "because continuous growth in a particular field is already very important".

An honest scientist who knows how to integrate disciplines and carry out translational research: this is the starting point of the intervention that one of the authoritative associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine held in UCBM. “Doing science means constantly working on certain issues, proving or disproving specific hypotheses”.