This journal can be compared to a flagship journal

(2) 讚！ | mountain tai

The difficulty of submission and the quality of the manuscript are clearly superior to PNAS and NC. It should be similar to the sub-journal. Fortunately, one of my submissions passed, but my submission to Science was rejected in the second review, so I directly resubmitted it to Plos BIOLOGY. It took a total of 8 months to conduct the experiments before and after. In Europe and America, PLoS Biology is definitely a top-tier journal.

(20) 讚！ | luofeiyu

Is a magazine that was founded in 03 considered an old brand?

(0) 讚！ | 上官酸菜

From a professional perspective, I think that Plos Biology is not inferior to PNAS. It has a high reputation abroad and is known for its strong professionalism. However, due to its low publication volume and fewer contributions from Chinese researchers, its impact factor is not high. PNAS, on the other hand, is a comprehensive journal with insufficient professional editing. Many times, it is a matter of luck whether your submission gets accepted or rejected, depending on the editor you encounter. Additionally, PNAS is generally considered as a backup journal for academicians. Therefore, I believe that although Plos Biology may have a lower impact factor compared to PNAS, it holds its value better.

(0) 讚！ | cjm5206

This journal is a very well-established magazine with a low acceptance rate for submissions. Compared to journals like PNAS and NC, the editors are very professional and have high requirements for data and logic. It takes three weeks for the submission to be reviewed and several months to receive the first review result. Three months are given to supplement data, and the second review goes relatively smoothly. After the process of confirming all the original data, proofreading, and so on, the publication is formally confirmed.

Overall, the process is relatively lengthy. However, this journal only publishes a little over 200 articles per year and has a strong reputation. Due to the low number of submissions from Chinese scholars, the impact factor is not high. Unlike NC, PNAS, and SA, which rely on luck in encountering good editors, Plos Biology is a very valuable professional journal. In Europe and America, many journals that were originally prepared to be submitted to CNS ended up being submitted to Plos Biology, mainly due to its professionalism. Therefore, getting published in a journal like this is really quite good.

(6) 讚！ | cjm5206

May I ask which journal do you think is more difficult to submit to, PLoS Biology or PNAS? (The impact factors seem to be similar, but PLoS Biology publishes fewer articles.)

(3) 讚！ | storyhare

May I ask which journal do you think is more difficult to submit to, PLoS Biology or PNAS? (I only know that both journals have high requirements for innovation.)

(0) 讚！ | storyhare

Posted on September 25, 2020, the initial review took 10 days and passed. The complete submission for further review took two months and was rejected. Three reviewers provided their opinions, asking direct and essential questions, which were very professional and quite challenging. They mentioned that if all the necessary improvements are made, a resubmission is possible.

(2) 讚！ | shenbisi

PLoS Biology is a very decent old brand journal with a small number of manuscripts and a high degree of recognition, so the difficulty of publishing here will be correspondingly greater. The requirements for innovativeness and data volume are quite high. From my experience, the entire editorial team is very professional and the quality of peer review is also high. In addition, the journal has a scoop protection mechanism, which is a good choice for situations where articles may be rushed by others.

(0) 讚！ | PAN

Journal homepage: http://www.plosbiology.org/

(0) 讚！ | 匿名

Note: the rejection rate is over 90%; I had a pretty rough experience with my paper; the editor said that my data wasted his time when he reviewed my paper.

(0) 讚！ | 匿名