Miranda Robertson

Miranda Robertson
Born
Miranda Barnett

1945 (age 80–81)
London
OccupationScientific Editor
Known forBiology Editor of the journal Nature; editor for the textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell

Miranda Robertson is a scientific editor noted for her role as Biology Editor at Nature from 1983 to 1992, during which time Nature's visibility and influence in the life sciences substantially increased, and for her contributions to the textbook Molecular Biology of the Cell. As editor of BMC's open-access Journal of Biology, she introduced improvements in peer review, enabling authors to opt out of re-review.