This month’s editorial in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases introduces Serap Aksoy, who steps up as Editor-in-Chief alongside Peter Hotez. Together they examine…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLoS NTDs: Providing Access to Innovation for the World’s Poor
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Open Access PLoS Journals – measuring impact where it matters
In 2009, in this online world, how do most scientists and medics find the articles they need to read? The answer for…
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Open Access Creative Re-Use Demonstrates Power of Semantic Enhancement
A Review article published today in PLoS Computational Biology describes the process of semantically enhancing a research article to enrich content, providing…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases International Trachoma Initiative and Task Force for Child Survival and Development Announce New Merger
Partnership aims to eliminate blinding trachoma and scale up the fight against other neglected tropical diseases Guest blog by Ibrahim Jabr, President…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases A reminder: PLoS will reject unregistered trials
Last week, the PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases editors rejected a clinical trial, without even sending it for peer review, because the trial…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Guest Blog: Call for Scale-up of R&D for Neglected Diseases
By Oliver Yun, Medical Editor, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, New York, NY Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases at ASTMH 2008
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, is getting ready for this year's ASTMH meeting (New Orleans, Dec 7-11), where you’ll find us at Booth…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Low-Hanging Fruit: An Anti-Parasitic Drug Database
A guest blog by Michelle Arkin and James McKerrow at The Sandler Center for Research in Parasitic Diseases and the Small Molecule…
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Open Access 2007 Impact factors for PLoS Journals
The latest impact factors (for 2007) have just been released from Thomson Reuters. They are as follows: PLoS Biology – 13.5 PLoS…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Peter Hotez Responds to US President’s Initiative to Combat NTDs
The following is a statement from Peter Hotez, Editor in Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and President of the Sabin Vaccine…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Partnering for Global Health Forum 2008, Guest Blog by Joanna Lowell
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases invited Dr Joana Lowell, Project Director at the non-profit Bio Ventures for Global Health, to write a Guest…
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In the News On the Origins of Syphilis
Did Christopher Columbus and his men introduce syphilis into Renaissance Europe, after contracting it during their voyage to the New World? Or…