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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: Two Years of Providing Access to Innovation for the World's Poor … and Counting

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  • Based on a number of metrics that we have been following, it is clear that our community journal is moving in the right direction and in some cases has already achieved some of its goals

  • 1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 2 Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America. It has been almost two years since PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases was launched as the first open-access journal devoted to the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)

  • We hoped that through our frontmatter articles that included viewpoints, commentaries, reviews, and editorials, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases would have an important role in advocacy and elevating the profile of the NTDs

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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: Two Years of Providing Access to Innovation for the World’s Poor ... We hoped that through our frontmatter articles that included viewpoints, commentaries, reviews, and editorials, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases would have an important role in advocacy and elevating the profile of the NTDs. Based on a number of metrics that we have been following, it is clear that our community journal is moving in the right direction and in some cases has already achieved some of its goals.

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