Plos one is the slowest among all the journals to which i have submitted. Methods a systematic search to identify studies published before october 2015 was performed in five electronic databases. On pastrami and the business of plos michael eisen. The 3 dangers of publishing in megajournalsand how you. The other problem with the pay to publish model is that a bunch of people have seen a market that is being disrupted, and are trying to make money off it in dubious ways hence the rise of predatory journals and predatory. The comments were quite helpful, and the manuscript was greatly improved because of them. Started in 2000 as an organization to advocate for open access oa, plos recognized early on that there needed to be a demonstration that oa publishing could work. Founded with the aim of accelerating the pace of scientific advancement and demonstrating its value, we believe all rigorous science needs to be published and discoverable, widely disseminated and freely accessible to all. Such policies help increase the reproducibility of the published literature. For what its worth, my policy is to publish everything in peerj unless there is a specific, compelling reason not to. Plos genetics, plos pathogens, plos computational biology, and plos ntds proved that the model could break even financially and even draw a surplus. Im sure the readers will realize that i neither work for nor am i affiliated with plos, but given a2a im going to entertain this and perform educated speculation.
Plos has an interesting opportunity before it to push its most robust service, plos one, very aggressively for growth. As impact factor is in essence a measure of citations per article, it seems surprising that a journal like plos one that prides itself on not making subjective judgments on things like importance can maintain a higher impact factor than journals that prioritize. Plos public library of science will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its flagship journal, plos biology, this year. How plos one can have it all the scholarly kitchen. Publication date december 03, 20 journal plos one authors james hansen, pushker kharecha, makiko sato, valerie masson delmotte, et al volume 8 issue 12 pages. Ive had papers bounce around various journals for 18 months until someone took a bite and like you, i most of this boiled down to sample size. Starting april 1, 2020, all manuscripts submitted for publication in a plos journal with a. 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. Background screening at hospital admission for carriage of methicillinresistant staphylococcus aureus mrsa has been proposed as a strategy to reduce nosocomial infections. As the organization grew, plos one demonstrated that the entire business model was viable. Plos and the surge in global momentum for open access. Their frustration runs deep as they urge publish to restrict or.
In financial terms, the purpose of plos one is to subsidize the cost of publication for their two flagship journals, plos biology and plos. Health and life sciences journals, journals published by medium or large publishers, and journals registered in the directory of open access. In 2016, the journal with the highest impact factor in web of science out of a. Increasingly, it is harder to hide the impact of your papers.
My question is, does it still make sense to send additional inquires about the progress to the journal. She acknowledges that plos ones publication time has risen. The most recent data from the american national election study, a large representative us sample, was used to test relationships between racism, gun ownership, and opposition to gun control in us whites. Plos one is an open access journal, a new addition to the plos public library of science series. This is where the public library of science plos, one of the major openaccess. It was quite clear that our manuscript was evaluated by specialists in our subject area. Background costly biologicals in palliative oncology are emerging at a rapid pace. Plos one the scholarly kitchen society for scholarly publishing. Homepage research publication ecolinks join the lab. 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. It is better to publish one paper in a quality journal than multiple papers in lesser journals. Frequent screening for syphilis and treatment of men who test positive might be a practical means of controlling the risk of infection and disease sequelae in this population. Plos is a nonprofit organization created to serve the interests of scientists and the public good. There were two key aspectsquality and costto consider.
The authorpays model allows plos journals to provide all articles to everybody for free i. Publishing everything in plos one would no doubt be problematic for your career. Therefore, signficant papers are still valued and reconizable in plos one and other journals that will likely follow their publishing methods. I think plos one is a terrific journal and has a very high impact factor. One main reason why i havent submitted anything to plos one is cost. You get that plos one, peerj and others offer a path to a more efficient, faster, more open scholarly publishing world. Peerj is much like plos one, but much cheaper you buy a lifetime membership once. Increased smartphone screentime associated with lower.
You like the idea of megajournalsonlineonly, open access journals that cover many subjects and publish content based only on whether it is scientifically sound. Perhaps the authors meant to invoke a kind of sunk cost fallacy. Plos one, open access, and the future of scholarly publishing. Ultimately, plos ones model, groundbreaking though it was, is already being supplanted by newcomers. With so much of our work as selfpublishing authors demanding the use of high technology, its both comforting and refreshing to tap into one of the most traditional and lowtech devices there is to market your book. The 3 dangers of publishing in megajournalsand how you can. For example, in patients with advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma addition of cetuximab to a palliative chemotherapy regimen appears to improve survival. We are fully dependent on your voluntary efforts to publish plos one for the larger academic community, and we could not carry forward our. Plos one is an inclusive journal community working together to advance science for the benefit of society, now and in the future. The objective of this study was to determine the longterm costs and health benefits of selective and universal screening for mrsa at hospital admission, using both pcrbased and chromogenic mediabased tests in various. The specialist journals in my field top out with impact factors of about 3. You get that plos one, peerj and others offer a path to a more efficient, faster. The scholarly kitchen is a moderated and independent blog. One probable reason for low reproducibility is insufficient sample size.
Im not quite sure exactly what was the reason but there was a recent flareup of the good old how much does it cost to publish a scholarly article discussion recently. A cross between quality and scale, plos one has been financially successful for several years. Results reported have not been published elsewhere. Why plos one is no longer my default journal i love. A simple model suggesting economically rational sample. When you choose to publish with plos, your research makes an impact. This could result in plos one becoming the default oa publishing option for all stm publishing. Plos and the openaccess movement canadian society for. There are bad journals and there are really bad journals. This is therefore a very costeffective solution for making papers available right now. Disparities in modelbased costeffectiveness analyses. Purpose we evaluated the costeffectiveness of strategies that increased the frequency and population.
Balatarin bibsonomy bitty browser blinklist blogger blogmarks. A number of other openness initiatives have also gained a lot of steam recently, besides papers. Plos alms are presented on the metrics tab on every published article. Making a journal publisher profitable lkfitzs bookmarks 20170909. As with all journals of the public library of science, plos one is financed by charging authors a publication fee. Personally, i have never published in plos one and by no means do i think plos one in its current form is the pinnacle of publishing. Openaccess megajournal plos one continues to shrink. We aimed to determine the incremental costeffectiveness ratio of adding cetuximab to firstline.
As with all plos journals, access is open to the public at no charge while. However, it simultaneously results in higher costs. All figures included in manuscripts should be original, and should not have been published in any previous publications. Design international, crosssectional study onetime survey. Plos one features reports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine. Plos one, the largest scholarly journal in the world, continues to shrink the openaccess megajournals output, measured by how many articles it publishes a year, last year fell to 22,054 its lowest since 2012 and down about 30 percent since its peak in 20. Well provide the tools for tracking and sharing your progress.
Purpose we evaluated the cost effectiveness of strategies that increased the frequency and population. 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. Panayiotou et al use a mouse model of alzheimers disease to show that intermittent treatment with a c5a receptor agonist, ep67, results in a. Plos one will not publish research on specimens that were obtained without necessary permission or were illegally exported. Plos can do this by lowering the cost of publishing fees, which would make it increasingly hard for other publishers to match them for a gold oa service. To conduct a timecost analysis of formatting in scientific publishing. By bringing together plos, one of the worlds leading native open access. With plos one, you can open opportunities for your community to see, cite, share, and build upon your science. Reviewers can now get orcid credits in plos journals enago. This authorea document template can be used to prepare documents according to the citation style and authoring guidelines of plos one. It covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine. Predatory journals are certainly out there and those are the ones that you really need to avoid. Save your searches comment on journal content submit your research to one of the plos journals. Why is it so expensive to publish paper in plos one.
So one might ask, how is it so expensive to publish in plos one, or any other gold. Plos one has partnered with experienced guest editors to call for papers within several research areas. Plos one, the academic publishing giant which was founded in december 2006, publishs more than ten thousands artices each year since 2011, and the number is still increasing dramatically. The authors believe that its unusually complete skeleton may provide insights into ichthyosaur diversity and evolution in the. Exposure to smartphone screens is associated with lower sleep quality, according to a study published november 9, 2016 in the openaccess journal plos one.