PLOS ONE Output Drops Again In 2016 Business ModelsControversial TopicsOpen AccessResearch Research articles published among PLOS journals 2007-2016 (Data: PLOS). The world’s largest open access journal got a little smaller in 2016. Last year, publication output in PLOS ONE dropped by more than six-thousand research papers, from 28,106 in 2015 to 22,054 in 2016–a decline of about 22%. Since its pe