A Publishing Milestone to Celebrate: 200,000 PLOS Research Articles and Counting

In 2003, PLOS published its first research article and this month we’re proud to announce that we have now published more than 200,000 research articles across our seven Open Access journals. It has been an amazing journey to reach this milestone. “In only 14 years of existence, PLOS has helped catalyze the rapid growth of the Open Access literature. The 200,000th article is a remarkable milestone for PLOS and for the scientific community that has supported the Open Access movement.”-Veronique Kiermer, PLOS Executive Editor We’d like to take this opportunity to thank those who have helped rapidly create this large corpus of diverse, Open Access research: Nearly 1,000,000 authors who trusted PLOS to maximize the accessibility and readership of their research More than 7,000 editorial board members and 70,000+ volunteer peer reviewers each year for their contribution to making PLOS journals’ content strong Thousands of journalists who report on trusted PLOS content Online readers of our organization’s website, who have made org one of the 50 most-visited science websites, creating a global audience for PLOS journal content Funders and institutions all over the world who supported publication of this rich body of research under a model that provides unrestricted access to all PLOS was incorporated in 2001 as an Open Access advocacy organization and became a publisher to prove the value of Open Access, beginning with PLOS Biology in 2003 and PLOS Medicine in 2004 as...
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