Papers published in PLoS One by Chinese authors engaged in scientific research / 中华医学图书情报杂志

Objective To analyze the characteristics of contributions and the reasons why Chinese authors engaged in scientific research favor to contribute their papers to PLoS One by comparing the papers published in PLoS One and its series by authors from China and other countries.Methods Papers published in PLoS One by Chinese au-thors engaged in scientific research were retrieved from Web of Science by setting the retrieval parameters and ana-lyzed.Results The number of papers published in PLoS One series by authors from China increased rapidly.The number of papers published in PLoS One was significantly larger than that published in other PLoS One series. Conclusion The scientific research scale is unceasingly expanded.Why the Chinese authors engaged in scientific research favor to contribute their papers to PLoS One are due to its attractive power and the guidance of scientific and technological evaluation management in China.

Papers published in PLoS One by hospitals in China / 中华医学图书情报杂志

Objective To study the reasons why PLoS One has set off an upsurge in China especially in hospitals, the academic level of papers published in PLoS One, and how to correctly judge the SCI-covered papers published by hospitals.Methods Papers published in PLoS One by hospitals in China were retrieved.The number of papers published in PLoS One by hospitals in China, the institutions that published the papers in PLoS One, and the num-ber of fund-supported papers were analyzed.Results A total of 9739 papers were published in PLoS One by hospitals in China from 2007 to October 2015, with an average cited frequency of 5.29.The majority of authors who published the papers were from affiliated hospitals of scientific research institutions and teaching hospitals of colleges and uni-versities.Of the 9739 papers, 87.78%were supported by funds from different foundations.Conclusion Nothing is strike about the academic level of papers published in PLoS One by hospitals in China with their average cited fre-quency lower than that (8.14) in our country.The SCI-covered papers published by hospitals should not be con-sidered as the only criterion in assessing the performances of staff in hospitals.

Analysis of Submission Information of Open Access Journal PLoS One / 中国医学伦理学

Based on the introduction and analysis about PLoS One, and its number of published papers, impact fac-tor, publishing period, manuscript employed, publication fee, auditing, requirement for paper etc. , this paper pointed out break the barriers of traditional publishing model from several aspects, create a new way of open access scholarly pub-lishing, promoted the fast communication of scientific research. As the author of China, can choose more PLoS One pub-lished as our scientific research platform, improve our position in the field of scientific research in the world.