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You are already intrigued, thinking \u201crules\u2026for what???\u201d There are MANY lists of 10 rules, thanks to a long-running series of articles from PLOS Computational Biology<\/em> entitled,\u201c10 Simple Rules<\/a>.\u201d Here are ten reasons to check it out.<\/p>\n

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  1. To date, there are eighty-four \u201cTen Simple Rules\u201d articles by multiple authors. According to the editors, the series \u201cprovide a quick, concentrated guide for mastering some of the professional challenges research scientists face in their careers.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. The first article in this series was published on October 28, 2005: \u201cTen Simple Rules for Getting Published<\/a>.\u201d The most recent article was published on December 7, 2017: \u201cTen Simple Rules for International Short-Term Research Stays<\/a>.\u201d That\u2019s twelve years of articles!<\/li>\n
  3. Topics in the series cover \u201ceverything you always wanted to know about science (but perhaps were afraid to ask),\u201d including \u201cTen Simple Rules for\u2026\u201d: \u201cGetting Grants<\/a>,\u201d \u201ca Good Poster Presentation<\/a>,\u201d \u201cChoosing between Industry and Academia<\/a>,\u201d \u201cBuilding and Maintaining a Scientific Reputation<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cStarting a Company<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. Each article compiles the ten rules in an easy-to-read list next to the main text, allows for comments, and provides related content.<\/li>\n
  5. All of the articles include metrics. For example, \u201cTen Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of Git and GitHub<\/a>,\u201d has 22,166 Views, 7 Citations, 249 Saves, and 219 Shares.<\/li>\n
  6. The most viewed article, \u201cTen Simple Rules for Writing a Literature Review<\/a>,\u201d has 972,853 views. Even the least viewed article, \u201cTen Simple Rules for Successfully Completing a Graduate Degree in Latin America<\/a>,\u201d has 2,883 views, and it was just published September 2017.<\/li>\n
  7. \u201cTen Simple Rules\u201d articles are freely accessible in PubMed Central<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. The series is one of many collections curated by PLOS<\/a>\u2014the Public Library of Science. The PLOS Collections<\/a> are broadly categorized into six topics: Biology & Life Sciences<\/a>, Medicine & Health Sciences<\/a>, Research Analysis & Science Policy<\/a>, Computer & Information Sciences<\/a>, Earth & Environmental Sciences<\/a>, and Physics, Chemistry, & Materials Science<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  9. \u201cTen Simple Rules\u201d is part of the Research Analysis & Science Policy Collection, which includes topics such as \u201cOpen Data<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Missing Pieces: A Collection of Negative, Null, and Inconclusive Results<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n
  10. Interested in writing your own \u201cTen Simple Rules\u201d article? Be sure to read \u201cTen Simple Rules for Writing a PLOS Ten Simple Rules Article<\/a>\u201d (which helped with facts three and six), including information for potential authors<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    ~Carrie Iwema<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You are already intrigued, thinking \u201crules\u2026for what???\u201d There are MANY lists of 10 rules, thanks to a long-running series of articles from PLOS Computational Biology entitled,\u201c10 Simple Rules.\u201d Here are ten reasons to check it out. To date, there are eighty-four \u201cTen Simple Rules\u201d articles by multiple authors. According to the editors, the series \u201cprovide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-10653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-january-2018","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10653"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10713,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions\/10713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}