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PLoS ONE
DisciplineScience
LanguageEnglish
Edited byPeter Binfield
Publication details
History2006-present
Publisher
Public Library of Science (USA)
Frequencyarticles published upon acceptance
Yes
ISO 4Find out here
Indexing
ISSN1932-6203
Links

PLoS ONE is an open access, "online only", scientific journal from the Public Library of Science. It covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine. All submissions go through a rigorous, internal and external pre-publication peer review but are not excluded on the basis of lack of perceived importance or adherence to a scientific field. The PLoS ONE online platform has post-publication user discussion and rating features. PLoS ONE articles are indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, Scopus, Google Scholar, the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), RefAware, EMBASE, AGRICOLA, Zoological Records and Web of Knowledge.[1]

History

Development: PLoS ONE was launched in December 2006 as a beta version. It launched with Commenting and Note making functionality, and added the ability to Rate articles in July 2007. In September 2007 it added the ability to leave Trackbacks on articles. In August 2008 it moved from a weekly publication schedule to a daily one, publishing articles as soon as they became ready. In October 2008 it came out of 'beta'.

Output: In 2006 the journal published 138 articles; in 2007 it published just over 1,200 articles; and in 2008 it published almost 2,800 articles, making it the largest open access journal in the world. As of February 2008, there were over 4,400 articles available.

Management: Until March 2008 the Managing Editor was Chris Surridge, and after this date it became Peter Binfield.

Publication concept

PLoS ONE is built on several conceptual differences compared to traditional peer-reviewed scientific publishing. According to Nature, the journal's aim is to "challenge academia's obsession with journal status and impact factors."[2] Being an online-only publication allows PLoS ONE to publish more papers than a journal that prints a weekly or monthly issue. It does not restrict itself to a specific scientific area in an effort to facilitate publication of research on topics outside, or between, traditional science categories.[3] In addition, it does not use presumed importance of a paper as a criterion for rejection. Instead, PLoS ONE only verifies whether experiments were conducted rigorously and astutely and permits the scientific community to ascertain importance, post publication, through debate and comment:[3]

Each submission will be assessed by a member of the PLoS ONE Editorial Board before publication. This pre-publication peer review will concentrate on technical rather than subjective concerns and may involve discussion with other members of the Editorial Board and/or the solicitation of formal reports from independent referees. If published, papers will be made available for community-based open peer review involving online annotation, discussion, and rating.[4]

Papers published in PLoS ONE can be of any length, contain full color throughout, and contain supplementary materials (such as multimedia files). The journal uses an editorial board of over 750 academics and in the two years since launch it made use of over 9,000 external peer reviewers. PLoS ONE publishes approximately 70 % of all submissions.[5]

Business model

As with all journals of the Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE is financed by charging authors a publication fee. As of July 2008, PLoS ONE charges authors $1,300 to publish an article. It will waive the fee for authors who do not have the funds.[6] The "publication fee" model allows PLoS journals to provide all articles to everybody for free (open access) immediately after publication. Reuse of articles is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution License, version 2.5.[7]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Images from PLoS ONE.

References

  1. ^ PLoS ONE Journal Information
  2. ^ Giles, J. (2007). "Open-access journal will publish first, judge later". Nature. 445: 9. doi:10.1038/445009a.
  3. ^ a b MacCallum, C.J. (2006) ONE for All: The Next Step for PLoS. PLoS Biol 4(11): e401
  4. ^ PLoS ONE Journal Information
  5. ^ PLoS ONE Editorial and Peer-Review Process
  6. ^ PLoS ONE Publication fees
  7. ^ Creative Commons Attribution License, version 2.5

External links

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