PLoS ONE
Last updated ISSN 1932-6203
PLoS ONE is published by Public Library of Science in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,382.
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What it publishes
Recent work in PLoS ONE concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Plant and animal studies
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- HIV Research and Treatment
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Key facts
| Publisher | Public Library of Science |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1932-6203 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,382 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 341,932 |
| Publishing since | 1806 |
| Journal website | www.plosone.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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