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PLOS Pathogens
DisciplineBiology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byKasturi Haldar Grant McFadden
Publication details
History2005-present
Publisher
FrequencyWeekly
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution License
6.608 (2016)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4PLOS Pathog.
Indexing
ISSN1553-7366 (print)
1553-7374 (web)
LCCN2004216476
OCLC no.57176478
Links

PLOS Pathogens is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal. All content in PLOS Pathogens is published under the Creative Commons "by-attribution" license.

PLOS Pathogens began operation in September 2005. It was the fifth journal of the Public Library of Science (PLOS), a non-profit open-access publisher. For a detailed timeline of PLOS publications see the PLOS history page. https://www.plos.org/history

Content

PLOS Pathogens publishes primary research articles, Pearls, Research Matters, Reviews, Opinions and occasional Editorials[1].

Data Accessibility

PLOS Pathogens publishes under the Open Access license PLOS applies to all its published works, the Creative Commons Attribution license[2] (CC BY). 

Indexing

PLOS Pathogens is indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), EMBASE, EMBASE, SCOPUS, Zoological Record, and Web of Science[3].

Business Model

PLOS’ business model requires in most cases that authors pay publication fees. PLOS provides individual and institutional fee support programs through its Global Participation Initiatives, Publication Fee Assistance and Institutional Fee Support[4].

Measures of Impact

PLOS Pathogens uses Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) to measure the influence of articles based on their individual merits rather than using the journal impact factor. A signpost in the upper right of every article provides summary metrics of citations, views, shares and bookmarks.[5]

References

  1. ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  2. ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  4. ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  5. ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
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