Neuroscience
Empowering a community publishing articles in all areas of Neuroscience, including cognition, neurology, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, developmental neuroscience, neurochemistry, computational neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, neuropharmacology, neuropsychology, and much more.
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Looking for exciting work in your field?
Discover top cited Neuroscience papers from recent years.

With formal training in neurophysiology and neurogenetics, Gabriel oversees many of PLOS Biology’s neuroscience submissions. Learn about new developments in the field he’s excited about.
Reproducibility is important for the future of science.
PLOS is Open so that everyone can read, share, and reuse the research we publish. Underlying our commitment to Open Science is our data availability policy which ensures every piece of your research is accessible and replicable. We also go beyond that, empowering authors to preregister their research, and publish protocols, negative and null results, and more.

Hear from PLOS ONE Academic Editor Daniele Marinazzo on how the study of physics can be applied to neuroscience
In 2020, PLOS articles were referenced an estimated 107,840 times by media outlets around the world. Read Neuroscience articles that made the news.
Ready to share your study with a wider audience? Help more people read, see, and cite your published research with our Author Media Toolkit

Exploring code notebooks through community focused collaboration

The lack of reproducibility of research findings is a continuing concern in modern science. Code reproducibility is a central part of the problem and we have been exploring code notebooks as one potential solution.
Imagining a transformed scientific publication landscape

Open Science is not a finish line, but rather a means to an end. An underlying goal behind the movement towards Open Science is to conduct and publish more reliable and thoroughly reported research.
Editors' picks
2020

Here, PLOS ONE Staff Editors from the different subject teams reflect on the past year choosing some of their favorite research. From research on plastic pollution to improving prognosis predictions for patients with cancer, we hope that these selections will have something of interest for everyone.
- What do you think is the best way to ensure reproducibility for future generations of researchers?