Happy Open Data Day 2019! It’s that special day of the year again! Well, every day should be Open Data…
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Advocacy Data Sharing: Better for Everyone, Especially You!!Read more
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Advocacy An Unexpected Perk of our Data PolicyRead more
What happens if you like a study, but find the way that the authors have chosen to present their data unintuitive…
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Announcement Protocols: The Devil is in the DetailsRead more
Hopefully you know already about the PLOS partnership with protocols.io; if you don’t, PLOS announced this almost exactly a month ago. What…
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Advocacy Setting Your Cites on OpenRead more
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched on April 6th, 2017. Over the course of about 6 months, the initiative…
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Advocacy Double bill on citation metrics: A new alternative to the Impact Factor plus a handy guide to citation normalizationRead more
On Monday, PLOS Biology published two articles on citation metric-based evaluation of published research. In the first, a Meta-Research Article (a…
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Announcement Why Your Research Matters!Read more
The landscape of science is always shifting and in the last ten years we’ve seen a significant change brought by revolutionary discoveries…
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Announcement “Slice of PLOS” Grows WingsRead more
We hope that you’ve been enjoying our blog post series “Slices of PLOS.” These posts were designed to feature research articles…
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Announcement Aperta: Smoother Submission to PLOS BiologyRead more
UPDATE June 8, 2018: PLOS Biology uses the Editorial Manager submission system. Find out how to submit. Today, PLOS Biology blazes a new…
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Advocacy Meta-Research: Getting the Most Out of ResearchRead more
Scientific research, often portrayed as the acme of human rigorous thought, is actually an activity that’s grown rather organically over the centuries…
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Debate The Trouble with TransparencyRead more
Last week we posted an article by two journalists, Paul D. Thacker and Charles Seife, who argued that the integrity of the…
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Advocacy New Charges of Climate Skeptic’s Undisclosed Ties to Energy Industry Highlight Journals’ Role as GatekeeperRead more
In theory, it shouldn’t matter where authors of scientific papers get their research funding, a longtime journal editor once told me. Papers…
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Advocacy Naïve, Crazy Idealists Make GoodRead more
Ten years ago this month, PLOS ventured into the world of scientific publishing by launching its flagship journal, PLOS Biology. When Harold…