There are bad journals and there are really bad journals. The official plos blog announced this forthcoming slowdown last month. From these figures we can see that in 2006 153 editors worked for plos one while this figure was 3,381 in 2012. Plos one will consider submissions that present new methods, software, databases, or tools as the primary focus of the manuscript if they meet the following criteria. When you choose to publish with plos, your research makes an impact. Plos one considers original research articles from all disciplines within the natural sciences, medical research, engineering, as well as the related social sciences and humanities. Jun 20, 2015 in 2003, plos became a publisher to show how open access publishing could work. Plos has identified a set of established repositories and data standards, which are recognized and trusted within their respective communities, for their journals plos biology, plos medicine, plos one, plos genetics, plos computational biology, plos pathogens, and plos neglected tropical diseases. Plos biology considers works of exceptional significance, originality, and relevance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface of other disciplines, such as chemistry, medicine, and mathematics. I served as a plos one academic editor for roughly two years and handled a variety of papers. This source code block initializes ebib and binds cc b to the command that inserts the cite. Changing the author list after submission requires agreement from all authors. If you choose to post your manuscript to biorxiv, select the article category and subject. As a publishing company, the public library of science officially launched its operation on october 2003, with the publication of a print and online scientific journal entitled plos biology, and has since launched seven more journals.
For example, authors should submit the following data. Utility the tool must be of use to the community and must present a proven advantage over existing alternatives, where applicable. Authors must ensure that software remains usable over time regardless of versions or upgrades. I still had a general case i wanted to argue, but it seemed that getting into a general and. She acknowledges that plos ones publication time has risen. Indeed, it is the slowest among all the journals i have submitted to. We expect that all researchers submitting to plos submissions in which software is the central part of the manuscript will make all relevant software available without restrictions upon publication of the work. Plos is a publisher and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by.
These figures are the numbers of editors that worked on plos one submissions received in the corresponding year. In 2003, plos became a publisher to show how open access publishing could work. The guidelines online are confusing me a little, and i dont have. Latex template for plos public library of science articles. For a journal like plos one, even small production improvements are desirable if they shorten the publication process or reduce the interventions of humans. The authors believe that its unusually complete skeleton may provide insights into ichthyosaur diversity and evolution in the. Oct 07, 2011 a complete study of article submission, acceptance, and publication dates would be quite interesting, especially if it covered all the years of plos ones publication. Mishandled criticism of plos one the scientific community was rightfully brought to arms when it was discovered a plos one article referred to a creator multiple times seemingly implying the human hand was the result of intelligent design, and it didnt take long for this makeshift army to turn its attention to the journal as a whole. My experiences with publishing at plos collaborative chemistry. A complete study of article submission, acceptance, and publication dates would be quite interesting, especially if it covered all the years of plos ones publication. The document class plos devel can be used when the article is being written. Upon initial submission, you are requested to submit the pdf of your manuscript containing the text, references, figure legends and tables. It launched its first journal, plos biology, in october 2003 and publishes seven journals, as of october 2015. One of the most effective tools with which to produce a scientific document is latex.
If you do not enter all of the relevant information in the submission process, your. The journal accepts original scientific articles from the fields of plant production agronomy, horticulture, plant biotechnology, plantrelated foodandnutrition research. Plos is a publisher and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Seven open access journals were launched between 2004 and 2007. Upon initial submission, you are requested to submit the pdf of your manuscript containing the. Three months now from the submission, i still have not got the first decision. The publisher is undertaking some changes to their workflow and are now. So we decided to withdraw our manuscript and submit elsewhere. Publication output in the largest open access journal, plos one, plummeted precipitously in the first month of 2015, declining from 2176 research articles in december 2014 to just 676 articles in january 2015. Plos one is the worlds first multidisciplinary open access journal and accepts scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty. From an authors standpoint, these fees might deter submission due to the existence of many journals without such charges. Predatory journals are certainly out there and those are the ones that you really need to avoid. Plos journals follow the cope guidelines for changes in authorship. Instant formatting template for plos one guidelines.
If your submission describes primary research in the life sciences and is not already posted as a preprint, you may opt in to have it posted to the biorxiv preprint server concurrent with your submission to plos one. Software submitted to plos must meet the following requirements. Plos one considers original research articles from all disciplines within the natural sciences, medical research, engineering, as well as. From an authors standpoint, these fees might deter submission due. Guri3, pinyi lu1,3,4, raquel 5 hontecillas3,4, josep bassaganyariera1,3,4, and david r. How to submit and track a manuscript boston university.
Manuscript preparation author guidelines vary wildly between different journals, from the sublime see cancer medicines guidelines here, which only demand a clear, generic and readable layout to the ridiculous plos one being a notable culprit. Feb 11, 2015 while the changes plos one proposed are intended to shorten the acceptancetopublication period, it will have no affect on the period from submission t0acceptance. Speeding up the publication process at plos one everyone. We like science to be out in the open, and publication of. Plos for public library of science is a nonprofit openaccess science, technology and medicine publisher with a library of openaccess journals and other scientific literature under an opencontent license. Poned1234738r1 enhancing hit identification in mycobacterium tuberculosis drug discovery using validated dualevent bayesian models plos one. Curious to hear how people on this sub feel about open access journals personally as well as what theyve heard from others in the field. Download formatted paper in docx and latex formats. Plos one features reports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Our active press program places articles in high profile global media outlets such as the huffington post 67 mentions in 2018, national geographic 87 mentions.
Plos one did not find a new editor for about one year. This all worked very well and i helped a range of papers of varying quality and importance get published in that time period crucially all of them meeting the publication criteria. I just got asked to format a manuscript for submission to an apa journal by cob, and have literally no clue what im doing. The public library of science plos provides guidelines for the submission of articles prepared using latex. It launched its first journal, plos biology, in october 2003 and as of october 2015 publishes seven journals. In a new plos one study, guntupalli prasad and colleagues announce the discovery of what is thought to be the first jurassic ichthyosaur found in india. The problem started when i submitted a paper from my group, one which i know from experience meets all of the plos one publication criteria. This software, freely available, is not as immediately understandable as other text editors, but the advantages are greater. If you are new to ebib and have installed the program, but have not set it up on your system or started it, then the ebib setup below. Jun 21, 2018 plos one is the worlds first multidisciplinary open access journal and accepts scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty.
Manuscript preparation guideline for plos one publisher. After several enquires feb 24th we recieve the following. One, plos clinical trials, has since been merged into plos one. Plos one features original research from the natural sciences, medical research, engineering, as well as the related social sciences and humanities that will contribute to the base of scientific knowledge. Plos one ensures the highest standards of quality and openness for the content it publishes and boosts speed to publication by eliminating subjective assessments of significance or scope to focus on technical, ethical and scientific rigor. Oct 25, 2017 in a new plos one study, guntupalli prasad and colleagues announce the discovery of what is thought to be the first jurassic ichthyosaur found in india. If you have problems with any reference management program, please contact the source companys. At plos one we like to speed up the publication process wherever we can. Dec 04, 2014 one of the most effective tools with which to produce a scientific document is latex. Bevan1,2,4 6 7 1genetics, bioinformatics, and computational biology program.
Join plos today, and help us improve open access scholarly communications. We also welcome datadriven metaresearch articles that evaluate and aim to improve the standards of research in the life sciences and beyond. Deposited in an open software archive see depositing software, below included in the submission as supporting information. Those of you who regularly follow us will know that we feel very strongly about reducing barriers to scientific publishing. The plos one template includes two custom document classes named plos devel and plos submit. The values behind the means, standard deviations and. The organization is based in san francisco, california, and has a european. It covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine. By not excluding papers on the basis of subject area, plos one facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers whether within or between disciplines. The journal publishes original research in all scientific disciplines, including interdisciplinary research, negative results and replication studiesall vital parts of the scientific record.
It instructs ebib to look for the bibtex database, local. Plos one welcomes reports on primary research from any discipline. An article received in 2006 and published in 2007 is included in the editor count for 2006. Requests must come from the corresponding author along with an explanation for the change. Ekins, i am writing to update you on the status of your appeal submission to the plos one journal. We expect that all researchers submitting to plos submissions in which software is the central part of the. Based on these admittedly sketchy data, ill bet such a study would show a gradual northeast slope to the overall data as times in all three bins slowly creep upward over time. I still had a general case i wanted to argue, but it seemed that getting into a general and thus toptier ecology journal was not going to happen. Plos one is the right choice for authors who want to make their research available and discoverable for all. Here slightly edited for clarity are the plos guidelines for converting pngformat files to tiffs using gimp, an opensource version of photoshop similar instructions are provided for pdfs and some other file types.