What is PLOS ONE?
{{italic title}} {{Infobox Newspaper |name = PLOS ONE |image = |caption = |type = science [[journal]] |format = |foundation = |owners = |publisher = [[Public Library of Science]] |editor = Joerg Heber |logo =PLOS ONE logo 2012.svg |headquarters = |circulation = |ISSN = |website = {{URL|https://journals.plos.org}} |}} '''''PLOS One''''' is a scientific journal. It is an interdisciplinary journal. That means it prints scientific papers about almost any kind of science instead of just one. It prints papers about engineering, biology, the [[social sciences]] and [[humanities]], for example science papers that talk about art.<ref name=Own>{{cite web|url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/journal-information|access-date=November 5, 2020|title=Journal Information|publisher=PLOS ONE}}</ref> As of 2017, it was the largest scientific journal in the world by number of articles printed per year.<ref name=Inside>{{cite news|publisher=Inside Higher Ed|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/05/open-access-mega-journal-plos-one-continues-shrink|access-date=November 7, 2020|date=January 5, 2017|title=The Shrinking Mega-Journal|author=Carl Straumsheim}}</ref> ''PLOS ONE'' is designed for research scientists are the primary audience for the journal, but ordinary people read it as well. Because of this, articles are written and edited to make them understandable to scientists in other fields and any educated person. ''PLOS ONE'' is published by the [[Public Library of Science]].<ref name=Inside /> PLOS also publishes ''PLOS Biology'', ''PLOS Medicine'' and other journals.<ref name=Science>{{cite news|url=https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/new-plos-pricing-test-could-signal-end-scientists-paying-publish-free-papers|access-date=November 7, 2020|author=Jeffrey Brainard|title=New PLOS pricing test could signal end of scientists paying to publish free papers|date=October 15, 2020|journal=Science}}</ref> Scientists must pay a fee to publish in ''PLOS ONE'', sometimes as much as US$1695. But then the stud