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PLoS ONE
Biology and life sciencesOpen accessIn DOAJ
Among the 50 biology and life sciences journals in this index it has the 14th highest h-index and the 43rd highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 65 699 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| China | 21% |
| United States | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 8% |
| Canada | 5% |
| Germany | 5% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 91% |
| Reviews | 4% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- SRplot: A free online platform for data visualization and graphing (2023, 2 545 citations)
- Data quality in online human-subjects research: Comparisons between MTurk, Prolific, CloudResearch, Qualtrics, and SONA (2023, 1 507 citations)
- A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required (2023, 427 citations)
- Using AlphaFold to predict the impact of single mutations on protein stability and function (2023, 316 citations)
- Global prevalence of nosocomial infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2023, 272 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 1932-6203):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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