Worth a Thousand Words

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Bex Walton

A study by David Rand and Thomas Pfeiffer of Harvard University published in PLoS ONE yesterday reveals how scientific journals’ different publication and review policies can affect the number of citations of published papers. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) offers three different publication tracks [...]

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Interview with Derya Unutmaz – Section Editor for Immunology at PLoS ONE

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Bora Zivkovic

Derya Unutmaz, M.D. is the Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Pathology and a Member of the Microbial Pathogenesis Program in the Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center at the New York University School of Medicine. He serves as the Section Editor for Immunology at PLoS ONE. Dr. Unutmaz and I did the [...]

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Ask everyONE: Length of the Review Process

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Bex Walton

Here is our featured author question for July.

Q: I have just submitted a manuscript to PLoS ONE. How long will the review process take?
A: Our authors often ask us how long it will take before they receive an initial decision on their submission to PLoS ONE and we appreciate that having worked on the [...]

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Experiences of highly cited authors supports the PLoS ONE editorial vision

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Peter Binfield

As you may be aware, PLoS ONE makes no determination as to the ‘degree of advance’ for any submission. Instead, we peer review submissions to decide whether they represent appropriately conducted, and appropriately reported, science and then (having decided that a submission is fit to join the scientific literature) we go ahead and publish it.
This [...]

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Thanking our Peer-Reviewers

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Peter Binfield

Since the original launch of PLoS ONE in 2006, through the end of 2008, the journal has benefited from the comments and insight of almost 9,000 external peer reviewers (a number which is now well above 11,000, as of today).
These individuals often work in an anonymous capacity, in their spare time, and for no remuneration. [...]

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