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Archives: PLoS One

A World Elsewhere: PLOS’s Community Action Publishing Model

Can community-action publishing prove to be a viable alternative to market-based publishing?

  • By Joseph Esposito, Michael Clarke
  • Nov 23, 2020
  • 23 Comments

Poor Financials Pushes PLOS To Ponder Future Prospects

PLOS’ latest financial report depicts an organization trying to reinvent itself, focusing less on disruption and innovation and more on efficiency and collaboration.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jan 3, 2019
  • 16 Comments

Journal Growth Lowers Impact Factor

Phil Davis examines how publication timing can affect annual Journal Impact Factor scores.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 13, 2018
  • 13 Comments

PeerJ Waives APCs and Pivots Again

Why would a for-profit, VC funded publisher celebrate by committing itself to a full year’s worth of additional expenses with no additional revenue?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 9, 2018
  • 11 Comments

Future of the OA Megajournal

Predicted to radically consolidate STM journals, the OA megajournal has found a successful niche market. The same can be said for MOOCs.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jan 10, 2018
  • 12 Comments

Study Reports Open Peer Review Attracts Fewer Reviews, Quality Suffers

Open online review has the potential to attract many more eyes to a new piece of research than conventional peer review. In reality, it may do far worse in attracting the eyes you want.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jul 11, 2017
  • 16 Comments

PeerJ Membership Model and The Paradox Of The Loyal Customer

Pivoting away from individual memberships to sources of institutional funding, PeerJ has entered into a crowded market of low-cost megajournals. Can it survive?

  • By Phil Davis
  • May 8, 2017
  • 4 Comments

Scientific Reports Overtakes PLOS ONE As Largest Megajournal

The open access megajournal is a proven success, but its future may lie in the hands of commercial entities.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Apr 6, 2017
  • 12 Comments

PLOS ONE Output Drops Again In 2016

Output in PLOS ONE dropped by 6000+ papers in 2016, calling into question the sustainability of PLOS’ business model.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jan 5, 2017
  • 4 Comments

Are Journals Lacking for Reviewers?

There is sufficient supply of reviewers to meet demand, a new paper suggests. It’s just not evenly distributed.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Dec 6, 2016
  • 8 Comments

The Fallacy of ‘Sound’ Science

“Sound methodology” suggests an ideal match to a scientific question that never quite exists. So why do some publishers use it?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Oct 27, 2016
  • 12 Comments

Can Highly Selective Journals Survive on APCs?

Are the APC levels set for high-end OA journals too low to be sustainable? Are there other ways that might help high-end OA journals pay their way?

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 10, 2016
  • 25 Comments

Old Media, New Media, Data Media: Evolving Publishing Paradigms

We typically classify publishers as Old Media and New Media, but now we have companies that are part of a new paradigm, the Dat Media company. Such companies sit above both Old and New, studying patterns in usage and in the databases of information aggregated by publishers.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Sep 27, 2016
  • 3 Comments

Scientific Reports On Track To Become Largest Journal In The World

Higher Impact Factor, faster publication, and weaker data availability policies may be drawing authors away from PLOS ONE.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Aug 23, 2016
  • 28 Comments

For Scholarly Communications, Double-dipping is Double the Fun

The much-maligned practice of “double-dipping,” in which a publisher received revenue from both subscriptions and APCs, is likely to remain with us for some time, as publishers learn to turn APCs into larger and more varied revenue streams, even as they create the impression that the APCs offset subscription costs.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Aug 1, 2016
  • 28 Comments
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