As the largest journal in the world, PLOS ONE publishes an incredible amount of data alongside its research articles, yet the article…
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Aggregators Getting Credit for Data
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Aggregators Our 200,000-Year-Old Ancestors: Neanderthal Bones in Northern France
We often make new discoveries about our ancient ancestors and how they may have behaved, and we sometimes find the evidence right…
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Aggregators The Rights Stuff: Copyright, Scientific Debate, and Reuse
We’ve all monkeyed around trying to sort out the ownership of published content. In the scientific community, copyright and its (mis)application in…
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Aggregators Next Steps in Reproducibility
In last week’s Nature and Science, the outcome of a meeting convened by NIH, Nature, and Science to discuss the issue of…
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Aggregators Fecal Matters: A Stepping Stool to Understanding Indigenous Cultures
Humans differ by opinions, traits, and baseball team preferences. But one constant factor unifies all humans–we excrete feces, and scientists have recognized…
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Aggregators PLOS ONE’s Spookiest Images of 2014
As we take a look back at research articles published so far in PLOS ONE in 2014, we realize we have no…
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Aggregators Does Urbanization Always Drive Economic Growth? Not Exactly…
We often think of cities as major drivers of economic development and growth. Big cities expand our access to infrastructure like public…
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Aggregators Going PRO – clinical trials must plan to capture patient-reported outcomes
Post authored by David Moher All participants in research are important. What patients in clinical trials tell us about treatments – patient-reported…
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Aggregators Worms in the Big Apple: Identifying Patterns of Toxocariasis Infection in New York City
For thousands of Americans, roundworm infection may pose a serious threat to their health. Toxocariasis, an illness caused by a parasitic roundworm…
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Aggregators Detection by Dung: Don’t Eat the Brown Snow
Researchers in Antarctica on a mission to locate penguin colonies found two groups of seabirds, thanks to a little help from satellites…
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Aggregators Article-Level Metrics Highlight: Top 10 of the Summer
Having just published our 100,000th article, the staff at PLOS ONE realizes that easily finding research papers among our wide selection is…
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Aggregators I Smell Green, You Smell Blue
In elementary school, we all learn about our five senses: taste, smell, touch, sight, and sound. Together, they continuously provide us with…