Public Health and Epidemiology
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Our expert editorial boards collaborate with reviewers to provide accurate assessment that readers can trust. Authors have a choice of journals, publishing outputs, and tools to open their science to new audiences and get credit. We collaborate to make science, and the process of publishing science, fair, equitable, and accessible for the whole community.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Public Health Implications of a Changing Climate
Feature your research in this collection. We are looking for research that uses climate change to address effects on public health with a particular focus on the spread of infectious diseases. Explore this collection and find out how to submit your research.
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Feature your research in this collection. We are looking for research that highlights the many interconnected facets of infectious disease epidemiology, including emerging zoonoses, viral genomics, infection dynamics, and more. Explore this collection and find out how to submit your research.
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Discover top cited Public Health & Epidemiology papers from recent years.
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Influenza
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PLOS ONE is launching a new influenza collection that will focus on every level of influenza prevention. Our panel of expert Guest Editors invite you to submit your research articles by April 9, 2021 to be considered for this collection.
CURATED COLLECTION
Epidemics on the move: climate change and infectious disease
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Discover the latest opinion and perspective articles on climate change and infectious diseases in this PLOS Biology Collection. Here we explore one of the most pressing problems facing the world today: understanding how climate change will affect the distribution and dynamics of pathogens and their plant and animal hosts.
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.
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PUBLIC HEALTH & EPIDEMIOLOGY IN THE NEWS
In 2020, PLOS articles were referenced an estimated 107,840 times by media outlets around the world. Read Public Health & Epidemiology articles that made the news.
- The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic
- Residential green space and child intelligence and behavior across urban, suburban, and rural areas in Belgium: A longitudinal birth cohort study of twins
- Occurrence and transmission potential of asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections: A living systematic review and meta-analysis
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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT
Paucity of research about vaccines and immunization at my country and the regional contexts led me to choose publishing my articles and reports in open access journals and to post preprints during the publication process to ensure sharing my experiences with other researchers as well as spreading knowledge to help in developing future strategies at communication and programs levels.
Majdi M. Sabahelzain
Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan, Department of Health Promotion, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
FROM THE PLOS BLOGS NETWORK
How can we increase adoption of open research practices?
Researchers are satisfied with their ability to share their own research data but may struggle with accessing other researchers’ data. Therefore, to increase data sharing in a findable and accessible way, PLOS will focus on better integrating existing data repositories and promoting their benefits rather than creating new solutions.
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.
Infectious disease modeling in a time of COVID-19
As the world grappled with the effects of COVID-19 this year, the importance of accurate infectious disease modeling has become apparent. We invited a few authors to give their perspectives on their research during this global pandemic.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU
- What do you think is the best way to ensure reproducibility for future generations of researchers?