Professor Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain is the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hyderabad in India, and one of the most prolific authors in PLoS ONE. Last week, I interviewed Dr. Hasnain over e-mail about his work and his experience with PLoS ONE: 1. What is your area of research? How did you get into ...

Adam Ratner, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at Columbia University. He is one of the first people to join the Editorial Board at PLoS ONE and is now our Section Editor for Infectious Diseases. We talked over Skype about medicine, Open Access, PLoS and the world of scient...

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The latest impact factors (for 2007) have just been released from Thomson Reuters. They are as follows: PLoS Biology - 13.5 PLoS Medicine - 12.6 PLoS Computational Biology - 6.2 PLoS Genetics - 8.7 PLoS Pathogens - 9.3 As we and others have frequently pointed out, impact factors should be interprete...

During the last week of April and the first week of May, PLoS ONE published over 100 papers, with another 57 following today. With such a great range of papers, covering topics from some very noisy bats and the eating habits of Paranthropus boisei , to endangered amphibians and substandard antimalar...

PLoS Medicine ’s domination of the UK (and worldwide) media last week was always going to be a hard act to follow but a number of the papers published in PLoS ONE this week did rather well in the news and in the blogosphere. From coral to quarrels and from improv to instinct, as usual, PLoS ONE ha...

Back in September, PLoS ONE published an article (Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit), by Kimberley Hockings and colleagues, who found that male chimpanzees steal desirable fruits, like papayas, to impress their female counterparts, who trade sexual favours in return for a share of the spoils. The ar...