Note: PLOS issued the following press release on Tuesday, April 2nd. Brussels, Belgium, and San Francisco, United States – The Public Library…
ICYMI
PLOS has published a lot of great blog content in the past three months, and we don’t expect our readers to be up to date on everything. So, we are starting a new blog series called, ‘In case you missed it (ICYMI)’, a collection of some of the best reads or key announcements from the previous quarter. In this addition, we are celebrating PLOS ONE’s 15-year anniversary and we’re highlighting our top 5 tweets and press papers from 2021. Happy reading!
From the Official PLOS Blog:
Following through on our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
PLOS Global Public Health publishes first papers
What a difference a repository makes
PLOS announces new publishing agreements
From Speaking of Medicine and Health:
A new expanded scope for PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Five asks for the global health sector
From EveryONE:
Fifteen years of PLOS ONE-Author Perspectives
Peering into the future: The next 15 years of PLOS ONE
From Latitude:
A turning point for planetary health
Co-producing climate information for Africa
Climate resilient and sustainable health systems
Top Press Papers:
1. Incidence, co-occurrence, and evolution of long-COVID features: A 6-month retrospective cohort study of 273,618 survivors of COVID-19
Published in PLOS Medicine, September 2021
DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003773
https://plos.altmetric.com/details/114181846/news
2. Human click-based echolocation: Effects of blindness and age, and real-life implications in a 10-week training program
Published in PLOS ONE, June 2021
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0252330
https://plos.altmetric.com/details/106904492/news
3. Dating first cases of COVID-19
Published in PLOS Pathogens, June 2021
DOI 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009620
https://plos.altmetric.com/details/108140277/news
4. Social foraging in vampire bats is predicted by long-term cooperative relationships
Published in PLOS Biology, September 2021
DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001366
https://plos.altmetric.com/details/113935112/news
5. Red seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis) supplementation reduces enteric methane by over 80 percent in beef steers
Published in PLOS ONE, March 2021
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0247820
https://plos.altmetric.com/details/101900649/news
Top 5 Tweets:
- We are extremely excited to announce the imminent launch of 5 new journals, our first new launches in 14 years! These new journals are unified in addressing global health & environmental challenges through forums rooted in the full values of #OpenScience. https://plos.io/3dWwfO0
https://twitter.com/PLOS/status/1387044568097464323 - Excited to announce that Yale University Library (@YaleLibrary) has signed two agreements that will allow @Yale-affiliated authors to publish in any PLOS journal without paying article processing charges. #OpenAccess #OpenScience https://plos.io/3dEzTfn
https://twitter.com/PLOS/status/1364255796314447876 - We are excited to announce that the newest PLOS journals are now OPEN for submissions! ➡️Learn more: http://plos.io/NowOpen 👋Follow our new journals for more updates: @PLOSClimate @PLOSDigiHealth @PLOSGPH @PLOSSustain @PLOSWater
https://twitter.com/PLOS/status/1397210442662088704 - Sexual attraction factors vary between men and women and across different ages, say Stephen Whyte of @QUT and colleagues. 🔎 @PLOSONE paper: https://plos.io/3uatBsF 📰 @guardian article: https://plos.io/3bL1xFP
https://twitter.com/PLOS/status/1395788270890483713 - We’re launching a new policy across PLOS journals to improve transparency in the reporting of research that is conducted in other countries or communities, aimed at mitigating a practice called #ParachuteResearch. Learn more about this new policy: https://plos.io/3kKOsS0
https://twitter.com/PLOS/status/1442523200311734275