Its parent organisation public library of science plos was cofounded in 2001 by nobel. Open and shut plos one, open access, and the future of. Plos one features reports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine. An author can apply for pfa when submitting an article for publication. Mar 30, 2007 information about the openaccess journal plos one in doaj. Mar 21, 20 i think it is probably less a factor of not accepting the philosophy of plos one publishing and more of it being an ejournal as to why the former group of people tend not to read or cite plos one articles. Here, a synthetic mutual inhibition gene network was built in e. Plos one, plos biology, plos medicine, plos computational biology. Plos blogs network diverse perspectives on science and medicine. Claire turner acting development editor, plos pathogens.
Our active press program places articles in high profile global media outlets such as the huffington post 67 mentions in 2018, national geographic 87. Plos one is an open access, online only, scientific journal from the public library of science. The open source toolkit features articles and online projects describing hardware and software that can be used in a research andor science education setting across different fields, from basic to applied research. Journal articles books book chapters reports web pages. Plos medicine and plos one are calling for submissions to bring together researchers and. The journal covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine. Plos one output drops again in 2016 the scholarly kitchen. Several articles have been published from my lab in plos one, and a number of my mstp friends have gotten their papers into plos one. But because of the journals outsize impact on the financial health of its nonprofit publisher, plos short for public library of science, a continued drop could one day become a problem. Taken together, articles published by all other public library of science journals amount to just 9% of total output. Plos one is the journal of choice for authors who want their research to be available to all, immediately and without restriction. The organization is based in san francisco, california, and has. The public library of science began in 2000 with an online petition initiative by nobel prize winner harold varmus, formerly director of.
Quasistatic cavity resonance for ubiquitous wireless power. Here, i o is the peak current, h is the height of the pole, and. Increased smartphone screentime associated with lower. The guest editors select articles for inclusion in the finished collection or special issue. Prediction of hypertension, hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia from retinal fundus photographs via deep learning. May 22, 2019 when you choose to publish with plos, your research makes an impact. It provides features for postpublication discussion and versioned articles that allows for a living document around which further scientific discoveries can be made. Plos one has become what it hates there is a nice quote from batman. Field permit please indicate the name of the institution or the relevant body that granted permission. One editing service that i work as a freelance editor for, edanz editing, charges 20 usd per 250word page for copyediting, or 25 usd for more substantive editing. The search api can be used to download plos article metadata, to identify a subset of articles of interest, or to get the doi of every published plos article. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience.
Roberts r, mayberry lk, browning ks, rakotondrafara am. They also produce a hard paper copy of each journal issue. Showcase your research in a topical and timely plos collection. Plos one, open access, and the future of scholarly publishing. Its parent organisation public library of science plos was cofounded in 2001 by nobel laureate harold varmus. Jan 05, 2017 in 20, 92% of all plos papers were published in plos one. Plos one shrinks by 11 percent the scholarly kitchen. In 2015, plos initiated its collections blog to highlight the newest curated research collections with articles coming from across the plos journals. Must be 8 or more characters and contain at least one number and one nonnumber, e. Exposure to smartphone screens is associated with lower sleep quality, according to a study published november 9, 2016 in the openaccess journal plos one by matthew christensen from the. The specialist journals in my field top out with impact factors of about 3. Moving to bioliteracy posted march 1, 2019 by mike klymkowsky. When plos launched trackbacks i remember being quite excited, but if there was one area that disappointed me, it was the lack of trackbacks. Software submitted to plos must meet the following requirements.
Authors of most plos journals can now opt to post their manuscript. Plos one, plos biology, plos medicine, plos computational biology, plos genetics, plos pathogens. Submit tiff or eps figures created in standard software. Data availability plos journals require authors to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available, without restriction and from the time of publication, with only rare exceptions to. The following policy applies to all plos journals, unless otherwise noted. Authors reporting new protocols are encouraged to register these on the protocols. Plos one, open access, and the future of scholarly publishing open access oa advocates argue that plos one is now the largest scholarly journal in the world. Submit to any participating journal to be featured in a topically focused plos collection or special issue, curated by esteemed guest editors.
One of the first, and now mostcited, synthetic biology papers in plos one was the study on fitnessinduced attractor selection. It didnt take long before plos one began emphatically to answer the skeptics. Plos one has partnered with experienced guest editors to call for papers within several research areas. A decision is usually sent to the author within 10 business days. Plos blogs network diverse perspectives on science and. Plos ones indifference to subject matter made it possible to publish an unprecedented body of articles that reflects the multifaceted nature of synthetic biology.
I am optimistic that in ten years or so, journals such as plos one will be more mainstream than they currently are. Links to datasets, implementations and software downloads. When you choose to publish with plos, your research makes an impact. Plos for public library of science is a nonprofit openaccess science, technology and medicine publisher with a library of openaccess journals and other scientific literature under an opencontent license. In contrast, output from other plos journals looks minuscule by comparison. Plos applies the creative commons attribution cc by license to everything we publish. It covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine. As impact factor is in essence a measure of citations per article, it seems surprising that a journal like plos one that prides itself on not making subjective judgments on things like importance can maintain a higher impact factor than journals that. It launched its first journal, plos biology, in october 2003 and publishes seven journals, as of october 2015. It launched its first journal, plos biology, in october 2003 and as of october 2015 publishes seven journals. Utility the tool must be of use to the community and must present a proven advantage over.
Download citation style files for your favorite reference manager. Apr 01, 2012 iirc the plos titles other than plos one do offer copy editing and other added value services, for example, plos biology often runs popular commentaries on the main research articles in each issue. Developed to facilitate open access, this license lets authors maximize the impact or their research by making it available for anyone, anywhere in the world to find, read and reuse. Public library of science plos feb 2020 present 4 months promote published manuscripts at the journal through press releases, social media strategy, and interaction with authors in. Text and data mining bulk downloads text and data miners tdm generally want a copy of the entire corpus and write specialized software to process the data. Authors submitting software to plos one should read these additional. Ambra is an open source platform for publishing open access research articles. There isnt really much of a difference between plos one and the gazillion bmc journals, yet i regularly read the latter and i do have the feeling that papers there do have more impact on average even if its not reflected by the ifs i suspect that comes down to plos one having more outlier papers that receive huge number of citations. Plos one introduces new statistical reporting guidelines to provide general principles that authors should consider in order to provide enough detail for another researcher to reproduce the study. A flexible platform for hybrid modeling with realtime. The public library of science plos allows authors to submit their manuscript formatted in latex to any of their journals. List the name and version of any software package used, alongside any. Jan 05, 2017 compared to most journals, plos one is still massive. Scroll down for community guidelines two types of plos blogs 1.
Deposited in an open software archive see depositing software, below included in the submission as supporting information. It is not always a last stop or third choice journal although it can be, if youre frustrated with rejections or major revision requests. In 2007, the journal received about 2,500 submissions and published 1,200 articles. Dec 27, 2014 there isnt really much of a difference between plos one and the gazillion bmc journals, yet i regularly read the latter and i do have the feeling that papers there do have more impact on average even if its not reflected by the ifs i suspect that comes down to plos one having more outlier papers that receive huge number of citations. Plos is listed in the worlds largest and most authoritative dictionary database of abbreviations and acronyms the free dictionary. Indeed, it is the largest journal the world has ever seen. We used correlation between qos and software metrics to train the learning machine. Looking for online definition of plos or what plos stands for. Posted december 20, 2019 by caitlin mcdonough mackenzie. Recent popular a semiautomated machinelearning based workflow for ellipsoid zone analysis in eyes. Plos does not accept vector eps figures generated in latex.
The plos publication fee assistance pfa program was created for authors unable to pay all or part of their publication fees and who can demonstrate financial need. Our journals partner with experienced guest editors to call for papers from the research community. This is in stark contrast to journals like nature which only publish articles which they believe will be highly cited and highly viewed, thus maintaining the impact of their journal. This is a reasonable approximation when the radius of the pole, a, is small compared to the size of the room. The channel editors aim to showcase how open source tools can lead to innovation, democratisation and increased reproducibility. So dec 20th we submitted both manuscripts to plos one with our appeal listed below. As recently as 2010, the journal published fewer than 10,000 articles. Considering plos one publishes 85 papers a day, about 50 times more frequent than even the most prolific journals e. Plos one will consider submissions that present new methods, software, databases, or tools as the primary focus of the manuscript if they meet the following criteria. It is now the single largest journal being published today. Plos the public library of science is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization on a mission to lead a transformation in research communication. Dataflow programming for the analysis of molecular dynamics with avis, an analysis and visualization software application.
Articles are highly discoverable and accessible to researchers both in and outside of their discipline. Nature, if nature and plos one were equal quality youd expect plos one to have about 50 times more ridiculously bad publications that slipped through the crack than nature. Author affiliations will be listed in the typeset pdf article in the same order that. These articles will be accompanied by expert commentary on the application, impact, and ethics of these approaches. Open the pdf in photoshop, gimp, or another graphics program that enables tiff.
Elements of successful scientific software development in a distributed collaborative community. In 2010, plos one received nearly,560 articles and published 6,800with about 60 being published daily. Submissions that do not meet the plos one publication criterion for language. From its start, plos has engaged in debate about science and medicine. Plos one was established as a journal which supposedly only cared about the science of the papers it published, and not their potential impact or number of citations. A semiautomated machinelearning based workflow for ellipsoid zone analysis in eyes with macular edema. In this collection, plos one, plos computational biology, and plos medicine feature research that applies machine learning methods to health and biomedicine. I think it is probably less a factor of not accepting the philosophy of plos one publishing and more of it being an ejournal as to why the former group of people tend not to read or cite plos one articles. Openaccess megajournal plos one continues to shrink. By not excluding papers on the basis of subject area, plos one facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers whether within or between disciplines. Developed to facilitate open access, this license lets authors maximize the impact or their research by making it available for anyone, anywhere in the. Plos has a list of scientific editing services, and some other publishers have similar lists. A network centric approach for estimating trust between open source software developers.
Compared to most journals, plos one is still massive. Plos one citation style guide with bibliography and intext referencing examples. Feb 11, 2009 quite common in bioinformatics papers. Handled by our software editors, software articles highlight and describe. Dear plos one, we are writing to formally appeal the original decision for poned1234738. Information about the openaccess journal plos one in doaj. Panayiotou et al use a mouse model of alzheimers disease to show that intermittent treatment with a c5a receptor agonist, ep67, results in a. Plos one was established as a journal which supposedly only cared about the science of the papers it published, and not their potential impact or. The software sustainability institute provides guidance on choosing a repository and sharing code, as do these plos articles on best practices and good enough practices in scientific computing.
There are currently sixteen independent blogs hosted by plos on its plos blogs network. For this, they provide a template which contains the structure and reference style they would like for submissions. Inference on dengue epidemics with bayesian regime switching models. Utility the tool must be of use to the community and must present a proven advantage over existing alternatives, where applicable. The collection of metrics shouldnt be limited to journal articles, but should include all relevant research outputs, e. In 20, 92% of all plos papers were published in plos one. The idea of removing the need for journals to select the most important science, and instead concentrating on publishing solid, sound science is a good one. What does the history of plos tell us about the development of. Lagotto is an open source application started in march 2009 by the open access publisher public library of science plos. By attaching a fitness pressure to one of the states i.
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