PLOS Medicine

PLOS Medicine

PLOS Medicine (formerly styled PLoS Medicine)<a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a> is a <a href="/en/Peer_review" title="Peer review" class="wl">peer-reviewed</a> weekly <a href="/en/Medical_journal" title="Medical journal" class="wl">medical journal</a> covering the full spectrum of the <a href="/en/Medicine" title="Medicine" class="wl">medical sciences</a>. It began operation on October 19, 2004, as the second journal of the <a href="/en/Public_Library_of_Science" title="Public Library of Science" class="mw-redirect wl">Public Library of Science</a> (PLOS), a <a href="/en/Nonprofit_organization" title="Nonprofit organization" class="wl">non-profit</a> <a href="/en/Open_access_(publishing)" title="Open access (publishing)" class="mw-redirect wl">open access publisher</a>. All content in PLOS Medicine is published under the <a href="/en/Creative_Commons_licenses" title="Creative Commons licenses" class="mw-redirect wl">Creative Commons "by-attribution" license</a>. To fund the journal, the publication's <a href="/en/Business_model" title="Business model" class="wl">business model</a> requires in most cases that <a href="/en/Author-pays_model" title="Author-pays model" class="mw-redirect wl">authors pay</a> <a href="/en/Publication_fees" title="Publication fees" class="mw-redirect wl">publication fees</a>. The journal was published online and in a printed format until 2005 and is now only published online. The journal's acting <a href="/en/Editor-in-chief" title="Editor-in-chief" class="wl">chief editor</a> is Clare Stone, who replaced the previous chief editor, Larry Peiperl, in 2018.


<div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt3">Academic journal</div><div class="infobox-journal-search" style="display:none;" about="#mwt3"></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn">Quick facts: Discipline, Language, Edited&nbsp;by, Publica... ▼</header> <table class="infobox hproduct mobile-collapse-element"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%;">PLOS Medicine</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/en/File:PLOS_Medicine_Postcard.JPG" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:PLOS_Medicine_Postcard.JPG"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/PLOS_Medicine_Postcard.JPG/200px-PLOS_Medicine_Postcard.JPG" decoding="async" data-file-width="523" data-file-height="717" data-file-type="bitmap" height="274" width="200" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/PLOS_Medicine_Postcard.JPG/300px-PLOS_Medicine_Postcard.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/PLOS_Medicine_Postcard.JPG/400px-PLOS_Medicine_Postcard.JPG 2x" alt="PLOS_Medicine_Postcard.JPG"></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Outline_of_academic_disciplines" title="Outline of academic disciplines" class="wl">Discipline</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="text-align:left;"><a href="/en/Medicine" title="Medicine" class="wl">Medicine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Editor-in-chief" title="Editor-in-chief" class="wl">Edited</a>&nbsp;by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><a href="/en/Raffaella_Bosurgi" title="Raffaella Bosurgi" class="wl">Raffaella Bosurgi</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background:#dfc;">Publication details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">History</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">2004–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Academic_publishing" title="Academic publishing" class="wl">Publisher</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/en/Public_Library_of_Science" title="Public Library of Science" class="mw-redirect wl">Public Library of Science</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Periodical_literature#Frequency" title="Periodical literature" class="wl">Frequency</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">Weekly</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/en/Open_access" title="Open access" class="wl">Open access</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Copyright#Transfer,_assignment_and_licensing" title="Copyright" class="wl">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><a href="/en/Creative_Commons_licenses" title="Creative Commons licenses" class="mw-redirect wl">Creative Commons Attribution License</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/en/Impact_factor" title="Impact factor" class="wl">Impact factor</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">11.613 (2021)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background:#dfc;">Standard abbreviations <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://marcinwrochna.github.io/abbrevIso/?search=PLOS_Medicine" class="external text" target="_blank">ISO 4</a> (<a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="http://www.issn.org/services/online-services/access-to-the-ltwa/" class="external text" target="_blank">alt</a>)&nbsp;· <a href="/en/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/Bluebook_journals" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Bluebook journals" class="wl">Bluebook</a> (<a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://lib.law.washington.edu/cilp/abbrev.html" class="external text" target="_blank">alt1</a>&nbsp;· <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="http://personal.psu.edu/dhk3/research/Bluebook/T-13.htm" class="external text" target="_blank">alt2</a>) <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=1549-1277%5BISSN%5D" class="external text" target="_blank">NLM</a> (<a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=PLOS+Medicine%5BJournal%5D" class="external text" target="_blank">alt</a>)&nbsp;· <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/msnhtml/serials.pdf" class="external text" target="_blank">MathSciNet</a> (<a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/search/journals.html?journalName=1549-1277&amp;Submit=Search" class="external text" target="_blank">alt</a> <img loading="lazy"alt="Paid subscription required" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="597" data-file-height="947" data-file-type="drawing" height="14" width="9" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/14px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/18px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png 2x">)</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/ISO_4" title="ISO 4" class="wl">ISO 4</a></th><td class="infobox-data identifier" style="text-align:left;">PLOS Med.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background:#dfc;">Indexing <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp" class="external text" target="_blank">CODEN</a>&nbsp;· <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://www.jstor.org/journals/15491277" class="external text" target="_blank">JSTOR</a> (<a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/showJournals?browseType=title" class="external text" target="_blank">alt</a>)&nbsp;· <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg1=1549-1277&amp;argType1=all&amp;searchCode1=KNUM&amp;searchType=2" class="external text" target="_blank">LCCN</a> (<a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg1=PLOS+Medicine&amp;argType1=all&amp;searchCode1=KTIL&amp;searchType=2" class="external text" target="_blank">alt</a>) <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="http://miar.ub.edu/issn/1549-1277" class="external text" target="_blank">MIAR</a>&nbsp;· <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=1549-1277%5BISSN%5D" class="external text" target="_blank">NLM</a> (<a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=PLOS+Medicine%5BJournal%5D" class="external text" target="_blank">alt</a>)&nbsp;· <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://www.scopus.com/sources?sortField=citescore&amp;sortDirection=desc&amp;isHiddenField=false&amp;field=issn&amp;issn=1549-1277" class="external text" target="_blank">Scopus</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/ISSN_(identifier)" title="ISSN (identifier)" class="mw-redirect wl">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&amp;q=n2:1549-1277" class="external text" target="_blank">1549-1277</a>&nbsp;(print) <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&amp;q=n2:1549-1676" class="external text" target="_blank">1549-1676</a>&nbsp;(web) </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/LCCN_(identifier)" title="LCCN (identifier)" class="mw-redirect wl">LCCN</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="//lccn.loc.gov/2004212194" class="external text" target="_blank">2004212194</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/OCLC_(identifier)" title="OCLC (identifier)" class="mw-redirect wl">OCLC</a>&nbsp;no.</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="//www.worldcat.org/oclc/54674092" class="external text" target="_blank">54674092</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background:#dfc;">Links</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align:left;">
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PLOS Medicine  is a peer-reviewed weekly medical journal covering the full spectrum of the medical sciences. It began operation on October 19, 2004, as the second journal of the Public Library of Science , a non-profit open access publisher. All content in PLOS Medicine is published under the Creative Commons "by-attribution" license. To fund the journal, the publication's business model requires in most cases that authors pay publication fees. The journal was published online and in a printed format until 2005 and is now only published online. The journal's acting chief editor is Clare Stone, who replaced the previous chief editor, Larry Peiperl, in 2018. 