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| Discipline | Multidisciplinary |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Emily Chenette |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2006 |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Upon acceptance |
| Yes | |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International |
| 2.9 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | PLOS ONE |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1932-6203 |
| LCCN | 2006214532 |
| OCLC no. | 228234657 |
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PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006. The journal covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine. The Public Library of Science began in 2000 with an online petition initiative by Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus, formerly director of the National Institutes of Health and at that time director of Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center; Patrick O. Brown, a biochemist at Stanford University; and Michael Eisen, a computational biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Submissions are subject to an article processing charge and, according to the journal, papers are not to be excluded on the basis of lack of perceived importance or adherence to a scientific field. All submissions go through a pre-publication review by a member of the board of academic editors, who can elect to seek an opinion from an external reviewer. In January 2010, the journal was included in the Journal Citation Reports and received its first impact factor of 4.4. Its 2023 impact factor is 2.9. PLOS One papers are published under Creative Commons licenses.