PLOS ONE is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for the purpose of original scientific research. PLOS ONE was created in 2004. The journal was made with the intent of being available to anybody, without restriction. The journal accepts over 20,000 new authors each year throughout 200 research areas.
PLOS ONE has placed articles in media outlets such as National Geographic, Huffington Post, and Scientific American. Editors evaluate research scientific validity, methodology, and ethical standards to determine whether or not the research is acceptable and can be made available freely. The journal accepts papers from over 200 countries and have accepted over 200,000 papers since its launch.
COVID-19
Since the outbreak of the novel COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, PLOS ONE has not stopped their research processing, and maintains their processing times to monitor the situation both in the United States and the United Kingdom. They are facilitating the evaluation of papers related to the coronavirus and the pandemic as well as standard processing.
The content that PLOS has curated for the reference of COVID-19 includes articles related to the virus. They have gathered research papers and online commentary to describe and provide methods, findings, and datasets that are related to the relevant public health policy. Their papers are update on a three-week cycle.
