Hope you are doing well.
I want to share my experience with PLOS ONE.
Recently we have submitted some papers in PLOS ONE and after two or three rounds of revision they accepted it officially and send an acceptance Email to all authors.
Then after checking 5-6 months, they have rejected our paper "with no reason".
I summary, for our 5-6 accepted papers, they have just wasted our 1 years and do not forget that they have high charges for the publication.
In addition, we have submitted some new papers in the PLOS ONE and the paper is still "Submitted to the Journal" from the last four months.
Remember that they are also charging very high publication fees.
I just convey to all my colleagues and seniors that think twice and thrice, when you will plan to submit a paper in PLOS ONE.
Compare to this, MDPI can publish a paper just within 3 weeks, and PLOS ONE is taking three months just for changing the status of the paper.
Best wishes,
Regards
Muhammad Hamzah Saleem
Research Assistant
Qatar University