PLoS ONE Journal Information
PLoS ONE (eISSN-1932-6203) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. PLoS ONE welcomes reports on primary research from any scientific discipline. It provides:
- Open-access—freely accessible online, authors retain copyright
- Fast publication times
- Peer reviewed by expert, practicing researchers
- Post-publication tools to indicate quality and impact
- Community-based dialogue on articles
- Worldwide media coverage
PLoS ONE is published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization.
PLoS ONE is run as a partnership between its in-house PLoS staff and international Advisory and Editorial Boards, ensuring fast, fair, and professional peer review. To contact the Managing Editor, Peter Binfield, or any of the Publications Assistants (who can be found at our contacts page), please e-mail plosone [at] plos.org.
Scope
PLoS ONE features reports of original research from all disciplines 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.
Peer Review
Each submission is assigned to a member of the PLoS ONE Editorial Board. They are responsible for managing the peer review for each submission - a process which concentrates on technical rather than subjective concerns and may involve discussion with other members of the Editorial Board and/or the solicitation of the opinions of other experts in the field. If published, papers are made available for community evaluation and discourse involving the addition of online Notes, Comments, and Ratings. For more information see the overview of the PLoS ONE editorial process.
Open Access
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all works we publish. Under the CCAL, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their article, but authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy articles in PLoS journals, so long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers.
Publication Charges
To provide open access, PLoS journals use a business model in which our expenses—including those of peer review, journal production, and online hosting and archiving—are recovered in part by charging a publication fee to the authors or research sponsors for each article they publish. For PLoS ONE the publication fee is US$1250. Authors who are affiliated with one of our Institutional Members are eligible for a discount on this fee.
We offer a complete or partial fee waiver for authors who do not have funds to cover publication fees. Editors and reviewers have no access to payment information, and hence inability to pay will not influence the decision to publish a paper.
About the Public Library of Science
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. For more information about PLoS, visit www.plos.org.