PLOS Biology

PLOS Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biology. Publication began on October 13, 2003. It is the first journal published by the Public Library of Science. The editor-in-chief is Nonia Pariente.^[1]

PLOS Biology

Discipline	Biology
Language	English
Edited by	Nonia Pariente
Publication details
History	2003–present
Publisher	Public Library of Science
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution License
Impact factor	7.2 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	PLOS Biol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	PBLIBG
ISSN	1544-9173 (print) 1545-7885 (web)
LCCN	2003212293
OCLC no.	1039259630
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

In addition to research articles, the journal publishes magazine content aimed to be accessible to a broad audience. Article types in this section are essays, "unsolved mysteries", editorials, and synopses.^[2][3]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts^[4]
• BIOSIS Previews^[4]
• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences^[4]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences^[4]
• Chemical Abstracts Service^[5]
• Embase^[6]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[7]
• Science Citation Index^[4]
• Scopus^[8]
• The Zoological Record^[4]

According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2023 impact factor of 7.8.^[9] The journal does not list this impact factor on its website.^[10] Instead, the journal promotes the use of article level metrics to provide a measure of the impact of their published articles.