One of the most innovative features of PLoS ONE is the ratings system. As the papers published in the journal are primarily selected based upon scientific rigor and communication, PLoS ONE encourages the rating of the papers in order to identify the most interesting and significant results as judged by the scientific community.
Unfortunately, it appears that the ratings system has not been used as much as had been hoped. There are several possible reasons for this, including
1) The time crunch that affects nearly all participants in academia,
2) A lack of expertise in the field of the paper, preventing an adequate review,
3) An unwillingness to criticize those papers one deems unimportant.
While these setbacks are most likely simply the birth pains of an emerging application, I encourage all of you to rate articles after reading them in order to expedite the process of fully integrating the ratings system into the academic mainstream.
Nathan
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