This paper had a turnaround time of less than 21 days from submission to acceptance. But then, while finalizing the paper, a twomonthlong medical nightmare ensued that eventually ended in the stillbirth of my first child. Bmc biology editors will suggest one or more specific bmc journals for which the paper seems in scope, providing a transfer link in the editorial decision letter. However, most scientists are never taught how to do this efficiently. Plos biologypublishes articles of exceptional significance, originality and relevance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including work at the interface of other disciplines such as chemistry, medicine and mathematics. As the scope statement of the journal spells out, methods papers should describe outstanding methods of exceptional importance that have been shown, or have the promise to provide new biological insights.
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature. Getting ready to write involve your principal investigator pi early and throughout the process. What are the criteria for publication in plos computational biology. Heres some thoughts on how to approach writing manuscripts based on original biomedical research. Worse, she uses the prestige associated with her position to engage in scientifically dubious political activism. The idea of free reuse, redistribution, and modification of scientific software is at the core of the plos computational biology software section. The community journals do not include plos biology and plos medicine which, i suspect, are the flagship journals you are referring to. The editor of plos biology has not yet provided information for this page. Enhancing, standardizing, and automating ribosome profiling computational analyses yields improved insight into data ribosome profiling, an application of nucleic acid sequencing for monitoring ribosome activity, has revolutionized our understanding of protein translation dynamics. Authors of existing biorxiv and medrxiv preprints can choose to submit their manuscript for consideration at relevant plos journal through the direct transfer program. For a manuscript to be published as a software article, we require that all software use a license approved by the open source initiative osi. Plos one entered the market claiming fast publication times, but data show that plos one is slowing down, with times more than doubling.
Interventions include but are not restricted to drugs, cells and other biological. Presubmission inquiries serve the purpose of informing the journals editorial board of the essence of the intended submission. I sent the paper to plos one, because the topic was something that would be interesting to a wide audience it was about a linguistic analysis on pokemon names. Plos one features reports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine. And so i convinced my collaborators on a highprofile paper to submit it to plos biology, to see how this new highprofile oa journal would compare.
Plos one publishes its first coronavirusrelated paper. On july 29th 2016, journal of biological chemistry jbc retracted a cardiology paper from 2009 for data manipulations. In science, there should be a prize for second place the. The team of guest editors for this collection seeks research with direct clinical and health policy.
My experiences with publishing at plos collaborative chemistry. Plos squandered opportunity their problems with the path. Plos one publishes its first coronavirusrelated paper posted march 19, 2020 by plos in covid19, in the news, publishing open access and open science are critical, especially in times of crisis. Since plos one takes pride in its fast turnaround time, after 3 month of silence, i sent an inquiry almost every month. It was the first journal of the public library of science. Plos one publishes its first coronavirusrelated paper plos. An author can apply for pfa when submitting an article for publication. To mark the launch of a new datadriven metaresearch section in plos biology we collect here some metaresearch classics, as well as some of the most recent offerings, across plos. Its hard work, but planning and organization helps. By comparison, the 321 articles published in plos biology in 2007 brought in less than half this amount. Nominate your article for the channel in the submission form when submitting your article to a plos journal.
The authors of a new plos computational biology study were interested in how ants cooperate. Pages in category wikipedia articles published in plos computational biology the following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. Handled by our software editors, software articles highlight and describe outstanding open source software of exceptional importance that has been shown to pr. If you are submitting a revised manuscript, upload separate files for your text, figures, and supporting information. We expect that all researchers submitting to plos submissions in which software is the central part of the manuscript will make.
Oct 07, 2011 claims of speed can be used to carve out a competitive edge, especially for journals serving authors. Plos one also issued an apology statement following the incident. To address the current pandemic, and to mitigate future risk, plos biology has expanded the scope of the joint call for papers to include not only directly sarscov2 and covid19related research, but any study relevant to the emergence and outbreak of zoonotic pathogens. I have published in plos computational biology previously and by comparison had relatively good experience for this one, while a more recent paper literally had to be cut in half and part provided as a supplemental file before acceptance, which seem. Varmus first attempt to liberate biomedical research from behind publisher paywalls took place. Submit your manuscript plos biology provides an open access platform to showcase your best research and commentary across all areas of biological science. At plos biology, every paper is handled by a pair of editorsan academic, and someone from the journals inhouse team. List the name and version of any software package used, alongside any. We will send you an email with a link to reset your password.
Wikipedia articles published in plos computational. Apr 01, 2020 we encourage you to consider the scope of each journal before submission, as journals are editorially independent and specialized in their publication criteria and breadth of content. You will have a chance to opt in on the additional information screen. The plos publication fee assistance pfa program was created for authors unable to pay all or part of their publication fees and who can demonstrate financial need. A wonderful software for people who want to do research could be your plos biology affect factor 20 20 report. Plos biology pushes boundaries to publish highly selective research across the life sciences. Your research paper will now have a competitive edge in the journal publishing industry.
Scientists spend an increasing amount of time building and using software. Alternatively, plos pathogens can automatically compile a preprint pdf. We have extended the submission deadline to june 1. Plos offers an option to have your submission automatically posted as a. Renee is the senior editor, team manager for publication ethics at plos one, based in plos san francisco office. Plos medicine, plos computational biology and plos one are excited to announce a crossjournal call for papers for highquality research that applies or develops machine learning methods for improvement of human health. Plos biology provides an open access platform to showcase your best research and commentary across all areas of biological science. Only some days later, on august 20th 2016, the corresponding authors sathyamangla naga prasad and sadashiva karnik both from the same department of molecular cardiology at cleveland clinic in ohio, us, submit that same paper, under same. Introduction tackling grand challenges in various scientific disciplines requires ideas and perspectives from team members covering a diverse range of expertise, with sustained focus that persists over a time frame sufficiently long to meet bold scientific objectives 1, 2.
Prioritizing outcomes for advance care planning research. Authors seeking fee assistance must apply at submission, using the form in the submission system. How touse the plos biology influence issue to construct. Plos one, open access, and the future of scholarly publishing. This includes a calendar of the essential papers in the specialty. Plos one, plos biology and plos computational biology are delighted to announce a call for papers in mathematical modelling of infectious disease dynamics, where submissions will be included in a collection bringing together different disciplines such as mathematics, biology, medicine and physics in order to shed light on this crucial topic. Preregistration at plos biology and call for covid19. Plos one publishes nearcopy of retracted jbc paper, sans. Feb 26, 2015 like many other journals, the journal plos computational biology admits and in some cases requires presubmission inquiries to be submitted before the submission of a full paper. Plos computational biology accepts initial submissions of manuscripts in a single pdf file which can include text and figures. You may submit translations of the manuscript or abstract as supporting information. Software articles should be submitted through our online submission system. This collection is aimed at providing an inclusive platform for researchers from a broad range of disciplines, such as engineering, materials science, chemistry, computer science, rehabilitation medicine and interdisciplinary sciences.
Post on biorxiv when submitting to plos during initial submission, authors life science manuscripts can optin to have their manuscript posted as a preprint on biorxiv. Apr 27, 2010 we were referring to our community journals which are plos computational biology, plos pathogens, plos neglected tropical diseases. Figure updates plos has updated some of our figure requirements, most notably regarding naming conventions for. An authors ability to pay publication fees is never a consideration in the publication decision process. Plos offers an option to have your submission automatically posted as a preprint on biorxiv. Whichever stage you are at in the journal publication procedure, we have a service apt for you. We describe a set of best practices for scientific software development that have solid foundations in. For this reason, plos computational biology has installed a special type of submission, the methods paper. Why i resigned as plos one academic editor opiniomics. Synthetic biology is an emerging, transdisciplinary field at the intersection between many engineering and scientific disciplines such as biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, electrical engineering, or computer science. As new software articles get published in this journal, they will be.
John you, md msc, mcmaster university, hamilton, on. Note that a presubmission inquiry is not mandatory for general research papers in plos computational biology, though it is also mandatory for submission to the software papers category. Plos computational biology drafts, which is a subcategory of this one. Maintaining high research integrity standards at plos one. Information about the option to post your manuscript on the biorxiv preprint server concurrent with your submission to plos biology. This category includes articles published in plos computational biology as part of their topic pages collection. Ten simple rules for making research software more robust. This is a plos computational biology software paper. Plos articles are always free to read, share, and reuse. We encourage you to consider the scope of each journal before submission. Submit your manuscript through a simple online paper submission form or through email at journal.
Inside this guide, ill outline how to use the plos biology impact element data to generate your own personal effect component calendar. Collections plos covid19 research we are fasttracking submissions related to covid19 coronavirus and making the latest research from all plos journals available in a single collection. Plos biology uses the initial submission process, allowing authors to quickly submit to the journal and obtain rapid feedback from the editors. Jul 02, 2008 plos stays afloat with bulk publishing. Ants are unusual among animals because of their social behavior. Aug 23, 2016 the spreadsheet software microsoft excel, when used with default settings, is known to convert gene names to dates and floatingpoint numbers. Manuscript is published at plos computational biology. We are pleased to share results from a pilot with journals that tested the materials design analysis reporting mdar checklist, a minimum standards reporting checklist for the life sciences. Plos biology publishes original research articles of outstanding scientific significance. 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. Read below about some of the key changes, or use our author guidelines located at the end of this post for a full picture of how to submit and prepare your submission. Nov 21, 2017 and thats why it is distressing that a senior editor at plos biology, a major openaccess journal for the biological sciences, has no formal education in biology. In this paper we offer a jargonfree guide to best practice when developing.
In addition to research articles, the journal publishes magazine content aimed to be accessible to a broad audience. As a result, many are unaware of tools and practices that would allow them to write more reliable and maintainable code with less effort. A programmatic scan of leading genomics journals reveals that approximately onefifth of papers with supplementary excel gene lists contain erroneous gene name conversions. Plos biology publishes articles of exceptional significance, originality and. Upon initial submission, you are requested to submit the pdf of your manuscript containing the text, references, figure legends and tables. Contributed by michael hsieh ive had the privilege of writing a few manuscripts in my research career to date, and helping trainees write them. The channel editors will consider highlighting all nominated papers as editors pick or featured research. Paper submission in journals, journal paper submission. Under this call for papers, authors are responsible for providing, where relevant and upon submission, the source code needed to replicate their findings, in a repository such as github or bitbucket or a cloud computing service such as code ocean. In science, there should be a prize for second place. Full papers for oral presentation submissions to glbio 2019 should be prepared using plos one or plos computational biology format see below on how to choose the journal. If you plan to participate, upload a preprint pdf now, using the preprint pdf item type. There are two ways to get your work featured in the plos open source toolkit.
Presubmission inquiry to plos medicine for osm paper 1. Since the methods section was launched in october 2012, we have received 334 presubmission inquiries. On march 3, 2016, the editors of plos one initiated a reevaluation of an article about the functioning of the human hand due to outrage among the journals readership over a reference to creator inside the paper. Plos computational biology plos one submission information. Plos one plos biology plos computational biology plos genetics plos medicine plos neglected tropical diseases plos pathogens. These articles highlight key issues that hinder the scientific effort and offer ways to improve research practices. Plos one is delighted to announce a call for papers across all areas of open soft robotics research. An open letter to the community from plos ceo, alison mudditt. An orchestration software to democratize autonomous discovery. Nov 19, 2015 presubmission inquiry to plos medicine for. Data underlying the studys findings will be a requirement of publication, per the plos data policy.