 The journal uses an international board of academic editors with over 6,000 academics handling submissions and publishes approximately 50 % of all submissions, after review by, on average, 2.9 experts.Registered readers can leave comments on articles on the website.As with all journals of the Public Library of Science, open access to "PLOS One" is financed by an article processing charge, typically paid by the author's institution or by the author.