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Sep 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Salary is OK, but it comes at the expense of benefits and working environment.
Cons
PLOS is unsure whether it is a publisher with a mission, or if it's a business pretending to have a broader purpose in order to drum up sales. The mission of Open Access is a worthy one, but a lot of publishers are doing it better and PLOS is quickly falling behind--many of its ideas are old-fashioned and naive. As a business, PLOS seems doomed as the entire organisation depends on PLOS ONE publishing 30,000+ articles a year, and if the impact factor drops, the model will quickly become unsustainable. PLOS's downplay of Impact Factor will prove to be what brings it down.
