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The number of papers published by PLOS One grew rapidly from inception to 2013 and has since declined somewhat. By 2010, it was estimated to have become the largest journal in the world, [7] and in 2011, 1 in 60 articles indexed by PubMed were published by PLOS One. [15] By September 2017, PLOS One confirmed they had published over 200,000 ...
The journal states that their aim is to assess solely the scientific validity of a submitted paper, rather than its perceived importance, significance, or impact. [2] In September 2016, the journal became the largest in the world by number of articles, overtaking PLOS ONE. [3] [4] [5]
This is a list of open-access journals by field. The list contains notable journals which have a policy of full open access. It does not include delayed open access journals, hybrid open access journals, or related collections or indexing services.
As a rule of thumb, each field should be represented by fewer than ten positions, chosen by their impact factors and other ratings. Note : there are many science magazines that are not scientific journals, including Scientific American , New Scientist , Australasian Science and others.
The impact factor relates to a specific time period; it is possible to calculate it for any desired period. For example, the JCR also includes a five-year impact factor, which is calculated by dividing the number of citations to the journal in a given year by the number of articles published in that journal in the previous five years. [14] [15]
PLOS (for Public Library of Science; PLoS until 2012 [1]) is a nonprofit publisher of open-access journals in science, technology, and medicine and other scientific literature, under an open-content license.
PLOS Medicine (formerly styled PLoS Medicine) [1] 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 (PLOS), a non-profit open access publisher .
In any given year, the CiteScore of a journal is the number of citations, received in that year and in previous three years, for documents published in the journal during the total period (four years), divided by the total number of published documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters, and data papers) in the journal during the same four-year period: [3]