PLoS Medicine
Last updated ISSN 1549-1277
PLoS Medicine is published by Public Library of Science in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $6,460.
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What it publishes
Recent work in PLoS Medicine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Malaria Research and Control
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- HIV Research and Treatment
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
Key facts
| Publisher | Public Library of Science |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1549-1277, 1549-1676 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $6,460 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 5,838 |
| Publishing since | 1970 |
| Journal website | www.plosmedicine.org/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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