PLOS Pathogens

PLOS Pathogens
DisciplineBiology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byKasturi Haldar
Michael Malim
Publication details
History2005-present
Publisher
FrequencyWeekly
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution License
5.5 (2023)
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.

Journal

Scope

The journal scope of PLOS Pathogens is to feature PLOS Pathogens publishes original research and commentary that significantly advance the understanding of pathogens and how they interact with their host organisms.[citation needed]

Topics include (but are not limited to) adaptive and innate immune defenses as well as pathogen countermeasures, emerging pathogens, evolution, genomics and gene regulation, model host organisms, pathogen-cell biology, pathogenesis, prions, proteomics and signal transduction, rational vaccine design, structural biology, and virulence factors.[1]

Content

PLOS Pathogens publishes primary research articles, Pearls, Research Matters, Reviews, Opinions and occasional Editorials.[2]

Metrics

PLOS supports DORA – the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and uses Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) to measure the impact of articles based on their merits rather than using the journal impact factor. Traditionally, the impact of research articles has been measured by the publication journal, but this particular view examines the overall performance and reach of the articles themselves. ALMs are noted on each article to mark how often they are viewed, cited, saved, discussed/shared or recommended in order to assess work at the article level.[citation needed]

ALMs are available, upon publication, for every article published by PLOS.[3]

Abstracting and Indexing

PLOS Pathogens is indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), EMBASE, EMBASE, SCOPUS, Zoological Record, and Web of Science.[4]

Open Access

PLOS Pathogens publishes under the Open Access license PLOS applies to all its published works, the Creative Commons Attribution license[5] (CC BY).

PLOS Pathogens Business Model

PLOS's 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.[6]

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.[7]

References

  1. ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  2. ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  3. ^ Eldermire, Erin. "LibGuides: Measuring your research impact: PLoS Article-Level Metrics". guides.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  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.
  6. ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  7. ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
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