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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Announcement Aperta: Smoother Submission to PLOS BiologyRead more
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Announcement Is the p-value pointless?Read more
For the first time in its 177-year history, the American Statistical Association (ASA) has voiced its opinion and made specific recommendations for…
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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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Announcement PLOS Genetics’ Tenth AnniversaryRead more
2015 marks the tenth anniversary of publishing cutting-edge research at PLOS Genetics. Since the inaugural issue on the 25th of July 2005…
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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 Any Questions about our Data Policy?Read more
by PLOS Biology, PLOS Genetics and PLOS Computational Biology Publication is the end of one journey, but the beginning of another (longer)…
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Biology Starch, Oil, Water and Arsenic: New Plant Translational ResearchRead more
by Christina Kary PLOS launched a Collection last year, “The Promise of Plant Translational Research”. Here’s an update on how it’s…
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Biology Publishing to Keep up with EbolaRead more
As you read this, thread-like viruses less than one micron in length are spreading through human populations in West Africa, taking lives…
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Advocacy This week in PLOS BiologyRead more
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about the sequence of the centipede genome, alternative publication metrics, how we pay attention…
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Biology How Much of Your Genome Is Functional?Read more
On the 24th of July, 2014 PLOS Genetics published an article entitled: “8.2% of the Human Genome Is Constrained: Variation in Rates…
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Biology Introducing a New Look for the Journal HomepagesRead more
Today sees the launch of our re-vamped homepages for PLOS Biology, PLOS Genetics and PLOS Computational Biology. They’ve been designed to…