Life Sciences & Medicine
PLOS ONE
Publisher: PLOS
Open-access general biology/medicine, method-correctness-only review
Common rejection reasons
- ✗Insufficient methods description — missing power analysis or IRB statement
- ✗Conclusions exceeding what the data supports
- ✗Conflation of statistical significance with clinical meaning
What reviewers actually value
ReproducibilityMethodological correctnessExplicit ethics approval
Typical methods
RCTs, observational studies, and systematic reviews dominate; mixed methods are accepted.
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