• Owing to an error during the editing of an article about the academic publisher Elsevier (Scientists walk away from academic journal that ‘just got too greedy’, 7 May, p20), quote marks were added to a remark attributed to Stephen Smith, professor of biomedical engineering at Oxford University, when in fact his words had been paraphrased.
Smith had said researchers “often put up with the way things are because they want to publish in established journals with known reputations and high ‘impact factors’”, not because being published in such journals would “help their careers and ensure their work is widely read and cited”. Also, Elsevier claims to publish 18% of the world’s scientific papers, not 25% as the article stated.
• An article misspelt the actor Nora Tschirner’s surname as “Tshirner” (#IchAuch: film world in shock as Germany’s MeToo moment arrives, 7 May, p29).
