Editorial A Review of 2010 for PLoS Computational Biology

fifth anniversary in 2010, and all in our community, either as readers, authors, or editors, should take pride in what has been accomplished in such a short space of time. In the past year we received 1,403 new Research Articles, a 295 % increase from our first year of operation in 2005– 2006 and a 17 % increase over 2009. Of the articles submitted in 2010, 875 (62%) were rejected, and 70 % of these were before review. We have seen growth not only in submissions, but in readership as well. Currently, around 16,000 readers receive the electronic table of contents, a 14 % increase over the previous year. We published 392 Research Articles this year, along with 23 ‘‘front section’ ’ articles (Reviews, Perspectives, Education), down from 33 in the previous year. Eighty Associate Editors handled the combined submissions, with a total of 26 new editors joining this past year and six departing. We are proud to say that virtually every editor we asked to join accepted, a testament to how our community values the journal. These editors worked with more than 180 guest editors and 1,800 reviewers to handle the submissions, and we are of course very grateful for their support (Table S1). Table 1 provides a list of Research Articles we have published since 2005 through October 2010 that have accrued over 10,000 downloads and shows the diversity of highly accessed papers published by the journal. Note that these are down-loads from the PLoS Web site only, and do not include downloads from PubMed Cen-tral. Readers are free to review download statistics for all research and non-research articles published across the PLoS journals through the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that can be found a