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plos-medicine

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Use when targeting PLOS Medicine or deciding whether a medicine or public-health manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

When to use

• targeting PLOS Medicine
• deciding if a medicine or public-health manuscript fits
• open-access clinical or public-health research
• health equity or global public health manuscripts
• choosing between PLOS Medicine and other venues
• randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews
• health policy and implementation science
• global health and disease burden analyses

When not to use

• industry-sponsored manuscripts
• ghost-authored manuscripts
• commercially conflicted manuscripts
• manuscripts where funder controlled data access or analysis

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