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Another paper I came across this week in PLOS Computational Biology tackling a key open science issue in a practical way (https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012296).
Together with PLOS Biology's new code-sharing policy (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003678), it really boosts my view of PLOS.
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I've joined the Editorial Board of @PLOSBiology
As an Academic Editor, I encourage people to submit high quality cell biology manuscripts to us.
PLOS Biology is the #PLOS flagship journal in the Life Sciences. It supports selective, equitable #OpenScience and reaching global audiences to help advance science faster.
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Update. In response to this problem (previous post, this thread), some publishers are desk-rejecting papers based on open health datasets. The problem is not the quality of the data, but the absence of additional work to validate findings.
Two reports:
1. "Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets," Science, Oct 8, 2025.
https://www.science.org/content/article/journals-and-publishers-crack-down-research-open-health-data-sets2. "AI: Journals are automatically rejecting public health dataset papers to combat paper mills," BMJ, Oct 15, 2025.
https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2170
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Oh and #PLOS has a #TeXLaTeX template, which is a hard requirement for me. Journals not accepting LaTeX in physics fields is just silly. #PLOS's template is a bit funny though. No provided class, and you're supposed to submit it self-contained by manually pasting-in the auto-generated bibliography and included files, etc and weirdly excluding figures. I wrote a tool that does this automatically:
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It seems the academic world thus seems (?) to see #PLOS papers as "lesser quality", because also negative or non-results are allowed.
I never was into any of these reading or citing metrics, #OpenAccess is my top priority. I am funded by public money, so I'd find it unaccptable if my publications were paywalled. None of them have many reads or citations, though... Too niche a subject I guess. 🤷
So I think we should publish good stuff to journals like #PLOS and boost their reputation. 🚀
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The current academic publishing system is a terrible mess of quasi-monopolys, ridiculious publishing costs, #PhD's suffering from #publishOrPerish pressure, godawful paywalls, unpaid reviewers, authors waiving rights on their own work, and more...
#PLOS being a nonprofit brings some fresh air into this: They have no interest in accepting only sensational results - just good old peer review.
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Interview: #AI, Open Science, and the Future of Research Integrity (Dave Hansen, Exec. Director of the #Authors Alliance Talks with Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS (Public Library of Science))
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/08/04/ai-open-science-and-the-future-of-research-integrity-an-interview-with-alison-mudditt-of-plos/ #PLOS @AuthorsAlliance #openscience #scholcomm -
I sent @PLOS a mail with a fix for their #BibTeX style so that @misc entries (e.g. preprints) include a DOI (if any).
I always find it super frustrating when looking through a references list, then finding no DOI for an entry, when there definitely exists one - you see that the journal's bibliography style ignores DOIs for anything but @article etc. Don't really understand why.
Haven't had much success with other journals in this regard. We'll see if #PLOS is better 😀
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Man I do hate #PLOS's citation style with only these numbers. You don't see names, you don't see years, no context at all. 😠
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Disappointed in PLOS ONE. Why do they allow this statement, but fail to check if it is actually true?
#PLOS #PLOSONE #PhD #science #academia #publishing #scientificintegrity
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Everything is worrying at the moment but something I am wondering is if we should worry about the scientific publishers. Elsevier, Nature, #PLoS, maybe even #BiorXiv and others - is it possible that the US government forces them to either stop publishing, delete some or all of their published papers, or only accept papers that correspond to specific criteria?
Edited because I thought most of these were US-based but they are not.
Please tell me there is nothing to worry about on that front at least..
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#PLOS warnt vor neuen US-Executive Orders, die die wissenschaftliche #Freiheit und #Integrität gefährden könnten.
Einschränkungen bei #Forschungsthemen, Sprachvorgaben oder das Entfernen wissenschaftlicher Daten untergraben den Fortschritt.
PLOS betont, dass es keine Kompromisse bei der #Qualität und #Transparenz von #Forschung geben wird. 🔬📖
#Wissenschaftsfreiheit #Forschungspolitik #Science #OpenScience #academicmastodon
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Update. "PLOS [@PLOS] statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity"
https://theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos-statement-on-recent-us-executive-orders-and-scientific-integrity/"We are deeply concerned about a range of recent US Executive Orders that collectively have the potential to dismantle the US scientific enterprise as it has existed for the past 70 years…We will not approve changes to terminology or removal of data that compromise the scientific accuracy of content. Requests to remove legitimate authors from manuscripts violate our authorship policies which are grounded in principles of credit, accountability and transparency…We are actively working to understand the evolving implications of these directives and the disruption they have brought…We remain dedicated to the advancement of #OpenScience."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #PLOS #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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#PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity
February 21, 2025https://theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos-statement-on-recent-us-executive-orders-and-scientific-integrity/ #science #trumpocalypse
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https://next.ink/166421/sauver-les-donnees-du-climat-tant-quil-est-encore-temps
Les chercheurs et militants #écologistes américains ont peur d'une nouvelle suppression de #données concernant le #climat stockées par les agences publiques américaines alors que #Trump entame son deuxième mandat
En 2021 des chercheurs dans la revue scientifique #PLOS One, 20 % du site de l'EPA avait été supprimé. Notamment, la page qui rassemblait les ressources d'informations sur le changement climatique, le climat, les mesures d'atténuation et d'adaptation -
India spends $715 million on academic journals, but with the wrong kind of open access
Numerous articles here on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access to all academic knowledge is that publishers have been successful in subverting attempts to provide it. Publishers are strongly motivated to undermine open access, since its successful implementation […]
#apcs #businessModels #diamondOa #funders #gatesFoundation #goldOa #grants #india #openAccess #plos #profits
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But the only reason I felt free to do that was that this was an invited review in a special issue. Else, we'd probably have decided to yield much more.
Recently, an *editor* at a #PLOS journal also suggested 3 refs (against explicit PLOS policy) including 2 of their own which were very marginally relevant. My co-authors urged me to comply, which I did for one of the two.
#peerReview #scientificPublishing
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Digital Preservation: PLOS Partners with CLOCKSS to Safeguard its Journals https://www.infodocket.com/2024/11/07/digital-preservation-plos-partners-with-clockss-to-safeguard-its-journals/ #CLOCKSS #PLOS #scholcomm
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L'éditeur #PLOS lance un projet ambitieux visant à explorer de nouvelles solutions pour sortir d’un système basé essentiellement sur les articles et sur les #APC
#OpenAccess #PolitiqueDesEditeurs➡️ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/10/08/ploss-next-big-thing/
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Watching with interest:
https://plos.org/redefining-publishing/"Grounded in equity and price transparency, our goal [at #PLOS, @PLOS] is to develop a sustainable, non-APC [#DiamondOA] business model for all research outputs in collaboration with funders, libraries, and scientific institutions. This business model aims to be a catalyst for a global shift away from #APCs, enabling greater participation in #OpenScience and paving the way toward long-term sustainability."
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La version définitive de notre #article sur la #surveillance en temps réel du #SarsCoV2 en France en 2021 est maintenant publiée à #PLoS #computational #biology
Encore bravro à Corentin Boennec et Alex Massey pour leur énorme travail
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From Retraction Watch:
"Six of the main publishing groups have increased the average price for publishing articles by 26.6% in the last four years," according to an APC dataset that was part of a recent paper.https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CR1MMV
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08356
#academicpublishing #academia #academicchatter #elsevier #MDPI #PLOS
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Off to #GordonConference on “Genetic #Biocontrol” focused on “Enhancing #PublicHealth, #FoodSecurity & #Biodiversity”
Such an important topic in this era of expanding ranges of disease vectorsLooking forward to learning loads and reconnecting with/meeting new people
Stop me for a chat if curious about @PLOSBiology #PLOS publishing, science (or anything else)
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Fancy the idea of #GraphicalAbstracts in academic papers and like to have one in your next paper too? Struggling coming up with one?
Worry no longer! @helenajambor & M. Bornhäuser get you there (#PLOS Comput Biol 20(2), 2024):
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011789
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L’éditeur scientifique #Elsevier a émis en quelques jours des réserves éthiques (“expressions of concern”) portant sur 101 articles publiés par Didier #Raoult et ses collègues de l’#IHU Méditerranée dans la revue New Microbes and New Infections.
Cela s’ajoute à la presque cinquantaine d’“expressions of concern” précédemment formulées en 2022 par les revues du groupe #PLOS.
De plus, un autre article, initialement paru dans la revue #ScientificReports, a été rétracté. Il s’agit de la 10ème rétractation d’article pour Didier Raoult.
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@PLOSBiology is hiring:
PLOS Biology - Associate or Senior Editor – 6 month fixed-term contract
https://us232.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePortal/en-US/plos/Posting/View/565Front Section Senior Editor – 12 month fixed-term contract
https://us232.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePortal/en-US/plos/Posting/View/561Editorial Research Associate – 12 month fixed-term contract
https://us232.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePortal/en-US/plos/Posting/View/493All other jobs at #PLoS, including software engineering jobs, marketing, and others:
https://us232.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePortal/en-US/plosPLoS is based in Cambridge, UK, but a number of roles are remote.
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"...But I agree with Stephen that it also has the potential to mask people’s individual style in writing and, as a scientific community we’d then lose out on a lot of distinct and engaging voices."
#ScientificWriting
#plos
#CSHLhttps://theplosblog.plos.org/2023/10/scientific-writing-working-together-and-whats-next/
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A very nice collection of recent papers in environmental science from across the #PLOS family of journals, at the Latitude blog.
#EnvironmentalScience
#climatechange
#water
#agriculture
#atmosphericscience
#socioEconomics
#sustainabilityhttps://latitude.plos.org/2023/06/environmental-science-research-plos/
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Nine publishers just expressed "full support" for the new White House #OSTP guidelines for federal agency #openaccess policies.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975032"Our main message is simple: publishing in any journal published by this group already meets or exceeds the requirements outlined in the OSTP memo."
The signatory publishers are #Copernicus Publications, #eLife, #Frontiers, #JMIR Publications, #MDPI, Open Library of Humanities (#OLH), #PeerJ, #PLOS, and #Ubiquity Press.