The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has announced that PLOS Global Public Health and PLOS Digital Health are now fully indexed in PubMed Central (PMC), expanding their reach and furthering their mission of ensuring research content is accessible and discoverable as widely as possible.
Both journals have an explicit mandate to promote equity in research that can tackle the most urgent priorities for the field, such as access to healthcare, addressing bias in AI, and developing machine learning tools for underserved communities. PLOS is proud to feature perspectives from all over the world, and ensures that research is peer-reviewed by experts with significant, context-appropriate expertise.
Work published in PLOS Digital Health and PLOS Global Public Health will now be accessible to an even wider audience, meeting researchers where it is convenient for them to access knowledge. With the vast majority of article views coming from PMC or Google Scholar search, it is imperative that research in both journals be highly visible on these platforms.
Critically, the inclusion of PLOS Digital Health and PLOS Global Public Health in PMC is an endorsement of the rigor and reliability of the work published within and is the principal reason that researchers prefer to browse research on the platform. Journals indexed in PMC have undergone both technical and scientific benchmarking checks, allowing researchers to trust the findings, methods, and datasets shared. Of particular importance to the mission of both journals, this means local perspectives and expertise reported in rigorously reviewed published research will receive the attention and visibility that it deserves.
For PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS hopes that this discoverability will help connect research and researchers from different parts of the world and will ultimately further its fundamental mission: to broaden the range and diversity of perspectives at the forefront of public health and advance the health of all humankind.
This news serves as an important milestone for a journal like PLOS Digital Health, which actively promotes code sharing and data accessibility as a means to further inclusive participation, trust, and reproducibility within this growing field of research. Accessibility beyond the journal platform for a high-quality body of open research, as well as open research artifacts, extends the reach, impact, and use of authors’ work. It’s a testament to the growing desire for researchers to share their work in a reputable Open Access title that encourages transparency.
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