To kick off the celebration of PLOS Medicine‘s 15th Anniversary, Specialty Consulting Editor Sanjay Basu discusses the journal’s contributions to scientific communication and…
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15th Anniversary 15 Years of a Movement for Open Access Medical Science: PLOS Medicine 15th AnniversaryRead more
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Policy Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials: A Creative Approach to a Public Good; Now a Creative Approach to Implementation is NeededRead more
Margaret A. Winker, MD, Senior Research Editor, PLOS Medicine, and Virginia Barbour, MD, Chief Editor, PLOS Medicine, on behalf of the PLOS…
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General A transparent presentation of PLOS Pathogens retractions and PLOS policyRead more
We are writing to clarify several issues that have been raised in blogs regarding the retraction of Urisman et al. 2006 [1]…
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General The role of retractions in correcting the scientific literatureRead more
Last week PLOS Pathogens retracted an article published in 2006 that claimed to show the identification of a new gammaretrovirus XMRV, and…
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General Science Publishing and the Dual Use DilemmaRead more
You may be familiar with the controversy over recent research conducted on H5N1 influenza. If you follow science news, it’s been hard…
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Research Ethics Candid Corrections and Responsible Retractions: Lessons Learned from COPE 2012Read more
Several PLoS staff attended the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) European Seminar 2012 in London on Friday 16th March. Not only was…
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General Silent takedown of the pharma trials database…and moreRead more
Those of you with more than a passing interest in publication bias and other threats to the integrity of the research literature…
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General Ensuring Respect for the Donated Brains of ChildrenRead more
Nature has reported on the tissue-bank shortage involving donations of brains from children1. An accompanying editorial highlights that the key to treatments…
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General Obama’s bioethics commission reports on international research protectionsRead more
A US standing Presidential Commission, asked to assure “that current rules for research participants protect people from harm or unethical treatment, domestically…
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General What should the ethical protections be in cluster trials?Read more
This week I was delighted to listen in to a consensus conference of researchers, ethicists, editors and other interested parties, aiming to…
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