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PLOS

Nonprofit open-access science publisher

Senior Editor, Publication Ethics

Full-Time
£42k - £47k+ Home-office stipend
Senior
Master's, PhD
Remote in UK
RemoteApplicants may be based in the UK or Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, or Virginia. Some national and international travel may be required.
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About the job

Requirements
  • Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong organization, efficiency, attention to detail, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
  • Familiarity with peer review, publishing, editorial decision-making, and publication ethics issues and standards.
  • Prior experience investigating and resolving publication ethics cases.
  • Knowledge of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) standards and guidance.
  • A Master’s degree or PhD (or equivalent) in a scientific discipline.
  • Experience in an editorial or publication ethics role in science, technical, and medical publishing.
  • First-hand experience resolving publication ethics cases in science, technical, and medical publishing.
  • Demonstrated aptitude for critically evaluating scientific articles or publication ethics issues.
  • Some flexibility to work across time zones.
Responsibilities
  • Resolve publication ethics cases efficiently and in line with PLOS standards and COPE guidance; provide timely support for others’ publication ethics case work; address escalations and queries about publication ethics issues; and prevent reputational damage to PLOS journals as feasible.
  • Contribute as requested to tasks, cases, documentation, and other processes needed to support the team’s casework and other objectives.
  • Contribute to team-level and cross-functional initiatives and projects addressing ethics and integrity issues, such as developing workflows or policy updates and developing, trialing, or implementing approaches to improve detection, prevention, or resolution of publication ethics cases.
  • Support journal staff editors in resolving publication ethics issues arising during manuscript handling, peer review, or post-publication.
  • Communicate rapidly and effectively about ethics cases with involved or affected stakeholders, including journal editorial leads, Editorial Board members, authors, PLOS colleagues, and other parties involved in publication ethics case work.
  • Contribute to internal discussions about publication ethics, research integrity, and related issues in team-level and interdepartmental or cross-team forums.
  • Maintain awareness of cross-industry issues and initiatives and attend COPE Forums that fall within working hours.
  • Help with recruitment and onboarding for vacant team positions; train staff on other PLOS teams in publication ethics case management and standards; and provide training and feedback to other Publication Ethics team members as needed.
  • Uphold high standards of professionalism in internal and external communications about publication ethics issues.
Desired Qualifications
  • Expertise in image forensics.
  • Experience delivering trainings.
  • Post-graduate research experience in a scientific, clinical, or social sciences discipline.
  • Some national and international travel may be required.

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PLOS is a nonprofit publisher of scientific journals that makes research freely available to everyone. Its products are open-access journals, where scientists submit articles, researchers review them, and accepted papers are published online with freely accessible licenses. The process works through author submission, peer review, and publication, with articles funded by article processing charges paid by authors or their funders, rather than by readers through subscriptions. PLOS differs from many competitors by not charging readers and by being governed as a nonprofit that aims to make science openly accessible, often using Creative Commons licenses. Its goal is to speed up scientific discovery by removing access barriers and sharing results widely for researchers, educators, and the public.

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Oct 14th, 2026
ResearchGate and PLOS expand Journal Home partnership to support new journals from launch.

ResearchGate and PLOS expand Journal Home partnership to support new journals from launch. October 14, 2026 ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and PLOS, a leading nonprofit open access publisher, today announced an expansion of their Journal Home partnership to support two new journals, PLOS Aging and Health and PLOS Ecosystems, from launch. Journal Home will help establish these new journals' visibility, engagement, and discoverability among relevant researchers from the outset. Building on the ongoing success of PLOS's Journal Home partnership, the addition of the two new journals makes PLOS's full journal portfolio active on the platform. All PLOS titles now benefit from engaging with ResearchGate's global community of more than 25 million researchers, while the addition of the Open Access Agreement Upgrade helps authors to easily identify their eligibility to publish open access under relevant agreements and receive timely information about available funding opportunities in PLOS titles. Participating journals will benefit from: * Increased authorship: Journal Home connects PLOS Aging and Health and PLOS Ecosystems with relevant researchers from launch, supporting opportunities to attract and engage new authors as their research communities grow. * Increased article usage and readership: delivery of full-text content through ResearchGate helps researchers discover and engage with research from the new journals, supporting greater usage and readership across relevant research communities. * Improved author experience and loyalty: automatic uploads of published articles to author profiles make it easier for authors to showcase their work, while visibility into how research is being read, shared, and cited helps authors stay connected with their published research and PLOS journals. * Greater open access discoverability: the Open Access Agreement Upgrade helps authors identify their eligibility to publish open access under relevant agreements and receive timely, personalized information about available funding opportunities. * Enhanced journal visibility: dedicated Journal Profiles, prominent journal branding, and seamless content sharing across ResearchGate help researchers discover and explore the new journals and their research. "Adding PLOS Aging and Health and PLOS Ecosystems to Journal Home helps build awareness, readership, and international reach for these journals from the outset, while the Open Access Agreement Upgrade supports our authors with clearer information about their publishing and funding opportunities," said Jocelyn Quigley, Executive Director of Marketing & Communications, PLOS. "Research can only create meaningful impact when it can be discovered, accessed, and built upon, and these tools help remove barriers to knowledge sharing and support a more open and inclusive research ecosystem." "Journal Home gives new journals a powerful way to build visibility, readership, and authorship from the moment they launch," said Robyn Mugridge, Head of Partnership Development at ResearchGate. "Adding PLOS Aging and Health and PLOS Ecosystems connects their research with relevant researchers as their communities develop, while the Open Access Agreement Upgrade makes it easier for authors to understand their eligibility and funding options."

PLOS
Jul 10th, 2026
Connection and collaboration at EACR 2026.

Connection and collaboration at EACR 2026. In June 2026, PLOS One senior editor Jenny Tucker traveled to Budapest for the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) Congress, which brought together the global cancer research community to discuss important research topics and recent progress, including the importance of patient involvement in research, improved understanding of mechanisms underlying aberrant cellular behavior in cancer, and the role of immune cells and inflammation in driving disease progression. With over 2400 attendees from more than 70 different countries, EACR 2026 showcased scientific excellence from diverse researchers who share the goal of accelerating progress against cancer. The scientific programme included high impact keynote lectures, symposia, poster sessions, early career scientist forums and dedicated industry workshops on new technologies, alongside an engaging "Meet the Editors" panel, and an evening networking session to encourage connection between attendees. Outside of the symposia, attendees were able to browse over 1300 posters, with dedicated time to speak to the presenting researchers and build new connections. EACR 2026 also hosted an extensive exhibition from over 120 vendors, spanning from contract research organizations and biotechnology companies to gene editing and model development outsource companies, to support research and display new technologies for the advancement of scientific research. Relevant cancer research organizations and publishers were also present, to discuss the focal themes of importance with the research community and to understand how to continue supporting the dissemination of their research findings. A returning and central theme present through many sessions was the importance of the patient in cancer research, for those in pre-clinical and laboratory-based work as well as clinicians. In recent years there has been a growing dedication to patient-centric care in line with the World Cancer Day focus of the unique experiences of each individual with cancer. Marisol Soengas presented on the importance of patient involvement in cancer research, sharing her perspectives as both a cancer researcher and a patient. She is spear-heading the formation of the EACR patient involvement and outreach group to communicate science to patients, and to facilitate a forum for patient feedback, as her own experiences highlighted disparities between the clinically defined thresholds and what patients may truly consider tolerable treatment side effects. This exciting work includes a number of strategies to improve two-way communication with patient communities, and to consider how their input may influence the development of future policies. Cancer cachexia, a major challenge for patients which can directly impact quality of end of life experience was also threaded through the talks; Ayelet Erez presented work which demonstrates how early detection of patients at higher risk of developing cachexia may allow for earlier intervention, whilst Che Wei Wang demonstrated the ability of HP1α-overexpression to restore muscle function. Declaration of the return, and planned retention, of the 'bench to bedside and back' session was met with enthusiasm, as this session explores the development of translational advances, their implementation in clinical settings, and the backwards flow of their clinical success to inform future research. This session included sharing challenges in the development of successful therapies, and reminded researchers to hold onto hope, because even failures can be crucial in discovering future success. Connection and collaboration were key themes in EACR's program, with coffee breaks encouraging connectedness between attendees, and the introduction of a new EACR-Worldwide Cancer Research Collaboration Fellowships to support international research visits that grow out of connections made at the EACR Congress 2026 further supports this focus. The financial award is intended to nurture collaborations, whether the goal is to exchange skills and expertise, carry out a focused short-term project, or lay the groundwork for a joint grant. proposal. The cancer prevention symposium included strong talks from researchers reflecting on successes and ongoing challenges in preventative strategies, including the funding barriers and feasibility of precision prevention programs. Timothy Beck discussed both population and precision based approaches to cancer prevention, reflecting on some successes (eg. smoking cessation campaigns and HPV vaccination) whilst considering the challenges of precision-based strategies, due to the latency for effect, the challenge defining endpoints (ie. the absence of cancer development), and the funding issues which prevention trials face. He also discussed recent advances in technologies, such as liquid biopsies and early multicancer detection strategies such as the Pathfinder-2 and NHS Galleri trials, and the challenges balancing commercial interests with prevention goals. Paolo Vines presented on cancer prevention in the context of planetary health, with conversation focused on how planetary boundaries of health can have implications for cancer risk, and strategies which reduce these burdens may be advantageous for both the planet and its human population. Caroline Dive outlined some of the obstacles of biomarker translation from discovery into clinical application, introducing many attendees to the so called "biomarker valley of death" which sits between publications of putative biomarkers and those which are actually implemented in clinical settings. She shared three success stories in biomarker identification and implementation, highlighting how improved understanding of cancer evolution can provide new translational opportunities for therapy development. There was great diversity in the topics covered by symposia, with some themes continued from last years program, including brain tumors, genomic changes, the immune system in cancer, and cancer prevention. There were also new session themes which included novel cancer models in which there was great presentation of work across non-standard animal models, improving understanding of cancer prevention strategies across species, and comparing functions to better understand increased cancer risks. Impressive findings from sessions included novel autophagic processes which modulate micronuclei and potential chromosomal changes which may contribute to aberrant cellular processing and drive tumour formation or metastasis, generation of an organoid biobank which provides advances in ex vivo modelling from patient samples, and distinctions in cellular behaviour and physiological protective functions in young and aged populations which supports the need for personalised therapeutic approaches as cancer cell behaviour is distinct across different age groups. The speakers in all sessions were passionate, knowledgable and enthusiastic in sharing their work. Whilst some gaps in its understanding of cancer remain, this community is excited and intrigued to keep finding pieces of the puzzle, to progress its understanding of cancer and the underlying cellular mechanisms which may inform future preventative and treatment strategies. From speaking to researchers, it was also clear that the exhibitors really listen to this community, and not only wish to promote their products and services but also to understand where there are gaps in their offerings. One such example is the unmet need for cancer cell lines to support improved understanding of the aggressiveness of prostate cancer in specific ethnicities, due to limited availability of relevant cancer cell lines from a European provider. This exhibitor positively responded to requests to improve and diversify their offerings, to meet researcher needs and better serve the cancer research community. It was also very encouraging to see engagement with open science practices, including the use of pre-print servers, data repositories for data sharing and code sharing throughout the talks. As PLOS champions open science initiatives, it was encouraging to see the cancer research community value these practices to share their work.

PLOS
Jun 12th, 2026
A new Gates Foundation collection in PLOS on Wastewater & Environmental Surveillance in Low-Resource Settings.

A new Gates Foundation collection in PLOS on Wastewater & Environmental Surveillance in Low-Resource Settings. PLOS GmbH is excited to announce the publication of a new Collection across several PLOS journals in partnership with the Gates Foundation, including a range of interdisciplinary research on the topic of Wastewater & Environmental Surveillance in Low-Resource Settings. The Collection, led by Supriya Kumar (Gates Foundation, USA) and Kerrigan McCarthy (National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa), features several articles covering topical areas such as methods and tools for wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) of pathogens, modeling and frameworks for WES, implementation of WES across low-middle- income countries and low-resource settings, as well as standards for WES data collection and sharing. Wastewater & Environmental Surveillance in Low-Resource Settings collection. Kanyerezi S, Guerfali FZ, Anzaku AA, Babaleye OA, Calvert-Joshua T, Nguinkal JA, et al. (2024) Wastewater metagenomics in Africa: Opportunities and challenges. PLOS Glob Public Health 4(12): e0004044. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004044 Badizadegan K, Thompson KM (2025) Characterization of environmental and clinical surveillance inputs to support prospective integrated modeling of the polio endgame. PLOS Glob Public Health 5(2): e0004168. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004168 Mvundura M, Ngwira LG, Shrestha KB, Tuladhar R, Gauld J, Kerr C, et al. (2025) Cost-effectiveness of wastewater-based environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Blantyre, Malawi and Kathmandu, Nepal: A model-based study. PLOS Glob Public Health 5(4): e0004439. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004439 Msomi NS, Levy JI, Matteson NL, Ndlovu N, Ntuli P, Baer A, et al. (2025) Wastewater-integrated pathogen surveillance dashboards enable real-time, transparent, and interpretable public health risk assessment and dissemination. PLOS Glob Public Health 5(5): e0004443. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004443 Daroch N, Kannan SK, Srikantaiah V, Mishra R, Ishtiaq F (2025) Respiratory virus infection dynamics and genomic surveillance to detect seasonal influenza subtypes in wastewater: A longitudinal study in Bengaluru, India. PLOS Glob Public Health 5(9): e0004640. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004640 Athreya S, Ishtiaq F, Khandelwal T, Pattabiraman C, Rao L, Sundaresan R, et al. (2026) Localized wastewater surveillance showed correlation but no early warning during Bengaluru's Omicron wave. PLOS Glob Public Health 6(4): e0004684. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004684 Siko JEE, Dahmer KJ, Manoharan ZZ, Muthukumar A, Amato HK, LeBoa C, et al. (2025) Environmental surveillance of soil-transmitted helminths and other enteric pathogens in settings without networked wastewater infrastructure. PLOS Water 4(1): e0000337. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000337 Yapi EAM, Mossoun AM, Zan-Bi TT, Dindé AO, Gossé LG, Vakou SN, et al. (2025) Expanding access to wastewater surveillance beyond sewered networks: Effectiveness of active and passive sampling of waste effluent streams in Côte d'Ivoire. PLOS Water 4(6): e0000290. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000290 Manuel M, Amato HK, Pilotte N, Chieng B, Araka SB, Siko JEE, et al. (2024) Soil surveillance for monitoring soil-transmitted helminths: Method development and field testing in three countries. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 18(9): e0012416. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012416 Uzzell CB, Gray E, Rigby J, Troman CM, Diness Y, Mkwanda C, et al. (2024) Environmental surveillance for Salmonella Typhi in rivers and wastewater from an informal sewage network in Blantyre, Malawi. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 18(9): e0012518. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012518 Abraham D, Kathiresan L, Sasikumar M, Aiemjoy K, Charles RC, Kumar D, et al. (2025) Wastewater surveillance for Salmonella Typhi and its association with seroincidence of enteric fever in Vellore, India. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 19(3): e0012373. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012373 Troman C, Horsfield ST, Abraham D, Mohan VR, Giri S, Nair S, et al. (2025) Determining genotype and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella Typhi in environmental samples by amplicon sequencing. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 19(7): e0013211. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013211 Rigby J, Wilson CN, Zuza A, Diness Y, Mkwanda C, Tonthola K, et al. (2025) Diversity of Salmonella enterica isolates from urban river and sewage water in Blantyre, Malawi. 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Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa)
Mar 31st, 2026
The Role of Open Science and Science Diplomacy in AI Advancement.

The Role of Open Science and Science Diplomacy in AI Advancement. Kigali, Rwanda - 31st March, 2026 -The Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) hosted a high-level plenary session on "The Role of Open Science and Science Diplomacy in Global and Regional AI Advancement" on Day 2 of the 4th EAC Regional STI Conference - AI4EAC 2026. Joy Owango, Executive Director of TCC Africa making the keynote presentation The plenary session was moderated by Nicole Mulaku, Program Officer at the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), opened with a keynote by Joy Owango, Executive Director of TCC Africa, who emphasized that Africa must move from being a consumer of AI technologies to an active contributor. She emphasized that Africa must transition from being a consumer of AI technologies to an active contributor in shaping AI systems and governance frameworks. She highlighted the importance of open research infrastructure, collaborative frameworks, and regional partnerships as foundational elements for inclusive AI development. She further underscored TCC Africa's ongoing efforts to strengthen open research ecosystems through initiatives such as the Africa PID Alliance and HospitiumRIS, which enhance research visibility, interoperability, and equitable access to knowledge. Panel Discussion (L-R): Dr. Henry Waruhiu (ESAMI), Joy Owango (TCC Africa), Nicole Mulaku (TCC Africa), and On Screen Christian Kohl (PLOS) during the plenary session at AI4EAC 2026 in Kigali. The plenary featured a keynote presentation by Joy Owango, Executive Director of TCC Africa followed by a panel discussion with: Dr. Henry Waruhiu - Director Research and Management Consultancy. Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI). He highlighted the importance of structured science diplomacy frameworks that ensure meaningful participation of emerging economies in global AI governance. He emphasized the need for stronger alignment between scientific expertise, policy-making, and diplomacy, alongside targeted capacity-building to support equitable participation in AI ecosystems. Mr.Christian Kohl -Director of Technology and Engineering. Public Library of Science (PLOS). He emphasized the role of publishers and knowledge platforms in enabling equitable access to scientific information. He highlighted how collaborative and open research models can strengthen knowledge exchange across institutions and regions while ensuring that local expertise is recognized and integrated into global AI conversations. Ms. Joy Owango - Executive Director. Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa). In her panel contribution, Joy Owango focused on how open access, open data, and collaborative research models can democratize participation in AI development. She highlighted TCC Africa's work in building open research infrastructure through the Africa PID Alliance and Hospitium, stressing that such systems are essential for improving research visibility, interoperability, and inclusive participation in AI ecosystems. The discussion emphasized the importance of collaborative research, knowledge sharing, and policy alignment in fostering innovation ecosystems that support AI advancement at both regional and global levels. The session concluded with a strong call for increased regional cooperation, investment in open infrastructure, and the adoption of Open Science practices to ensure AI development is inclusive, ethical, and aligned with Africa's priorities.

PLOS
Mar 13th, 2026
The Economic Benefits of Open Science

The economic benefits of Open Science Executive Summary. March 2026 | Reading time 6 minutes Authors: Cristina Rosemberg, Aphra Murray, Alexander Holmes, Shrishti Kajaria Commissioned by PLOS Acknowledgement: We thank Rob Johnson (Research Consulting) for his constructive review of this work. Context: PLOS Redefining Publishing. This report is an output of PLOS's Redefining Publishing program, supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program explores how scholarly communication can evolve to better support Open Science at scale, including moving beyond the article by recognizing a wider range of research contributions and identifying more sustainable financial models to support them. As part of this work, PLOS commissioned the Technopolis Group to provide an independent study on the economic benefits of Open Science to clarify where economic value is created in an Open Science ecosystem, what conditions enable it, and where structural barriers and cost pressures remain. Executive Summary. This report examines the economic implications of Open Science and what it would mean to move towards a research ecosystem in which research elements, including data, code, software, workflows, methods, and publications, are openly shared and valued. Because the Open Science ecosystem is vast and the ambition of this work is necessarily system-wide, the study focuses on the components most likely to yield actionable insight: (1) a rapid evidence assessment to bring together dispersed economic evidence into an actionable evidence base, and (2) a set of illustrative case studies to demonstrate how value is created in practice across different types of open outputs and infrastructures. The study focused on three key areas: * Understanding the impacts of migrating to an OS ecosystem in which all types of research outputs are valued. * Exploring the costs of such a transition for the scholarly communication ecosystem. * Evaluating the variety of economic impacts arising from an Open Science transition. To ensure the findings reflect the breadth of Open Science beyond publications alone, the study includes five illustrative case studies spanning digital collections, computational workflows, open-source software, an open large language model, and open training resources. These were selected to represent different pathways to value, including efficiency, innovation, and human-capital benefits, and different patterns of cost and responsibility across the ecosystem (see Section 4 and Appendix C). Findings. Open Science delivers significant economic benefits when it enables reuse at scale The most consistent and measurable benefits arise through efficiency gains Open infrastructures enable innovation and downstream spillover value Network effects mean Open Science benefits can compound over time Costs are unevenly distributed across stakeholders, creating barriers to scale The economic value of Open Science is systematically underestimated Closing summary. Taken together, the evidence assessment and case studies show that the economic case for Open Science lies in its ability to enable reuse of research outputs at scale. When Open Science is implemented in ways that support reuse through appropriate infrastructure, incentives, and coordination, the sharing of data, code, software, workflows, methods, and publications can deliver measurable efficiency gains, support innovation, and strengthen long-term economic performance. The findings in this report provide a robust evidence base that supports the value of a transition toward Open Science and helps clarify where economic value is created and where barriers remain. The full report sets out the underlying methods and case study results in detail and provides the evidence underpinning each point in this Executive Summary, supporting deeper exploration of the analysis and sources. As an output of PLOS's Redefining Publishing program, this analysis underscores the value of system-level change beyond the article and provides a strong foundation for the next phase of the program. If you'd like to stay updated about our progress, please provide your details here.