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PLOS Currents
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
History2009–2018
Publisher
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 3.0
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4PLOS Curr.
Indexing
ISSN2157-3999
OCLC no.436157303
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PLOS Currents was a group of scientific journals published by the Public Library of Science.

Format

The platform was created as an experiment in open access rapid communication and to handle non-standard publication formats (negative results, single experiments, research in progress, protocols, datasets).[1] These features are similar to those now commonly found in preprint servers.

Submitted articles were reviewed by "moderators" (a select group of researchers in the journal's field) and were peer-reviewed.

Articles are archived in PubMed Central, and indexed in PubMed as well as Scopus.[2]

History

The PLOS Currents platform was launched in 2009. It had a particularly high submission rate during the 2014 Ebola epidemic and the 2015-2016 Zika virus epidemic.[1]

It ceased accepting new submissions in August 2018 due to the software platform becoming outdated, leading to a reduction in user experience and submission rate.[1] PLOS in stead pivoted to closer collaboration with services such as BioRxiv.[1]

Journals

  • PLOS Currents: Disasters (2012–2018)
  • PLOS Currents: Evidence on Genomic Tests (2010–2018)
  • PLOS Currents: Huntington Disease (2010–2018)
  • PLOS Currents: Influenza (2009–2013, replaced by PLOS Currents: Outbreaks)
  • PLOS Currents: Muscular Dystrophy (2011–2018)
  • PLOS Currents: Outbreaks (2013–2018)
  • PLOS Currents: Tree of Life (2010–2018)

References

  1. ^ a b c d PLOS (21 Aug 2018). "PLOS Update". The Official PLOS Blog. Retrieved 8 Apr 2019.
  2. ^ "PLOS Currents". PLOS Currents website. Retrieved 1 Jun 2013.


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