Interviews with PLoS ONE authors and academic editors

If you don't follow the PLoS Blog (you don't? really?), you may have missed a series of posts we recently started, interviewing some of our authors and academic editors, who reveal the behind-the-scenes thoughts about the process. Check out interviews with Jeremy Farrar, Dario Ringach, Ivan Baxter, Niyaz Ahmed and Tian Kegong.

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