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PLOS BIOLOGY


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*Average Peer Review
Average 3 Month(s)
*Competitiveness
About 11.66%
CiteScore
9.2
CiteScore Rank
Subject Area Rank Percentile
Category: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Subcategory: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences		 13 / 235
Category: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Subcategory: General Immunology and Microbiology		 7 / 63
Category: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Subcategory: General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology		 32 / 223
Category: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Subcategory: General Neuroscience		 19 / 112
Link to PubMed Central (PMC)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=1544-9173%5BISSN%5D

Indexing (SCI collection)
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
Scopus (CiteScore)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Country/Area of Publication
UNITED STATES
Publication Frequency
Monthly
Publisher
Public Library of Science

ISSN
1544-9173
E-ISSN
1545-7885
Year Publication Started
2003

Self-citation (2025-2026)
1.40%
Annual Article Volume
463
Gold OA Percentage
100.00%

Open Access Info
APC APC Waiver Other Charges
Yes: Check details
( USD5500; )		Yes: Check detailsNo
Journal Aim & Scope
PLOS Biology (eISSN-1545-7885; ISSN-1544-9173) is an open-access, peer-reviewed general biology journal published by PLOS, a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. New articles are published online weekly; issues are published monthly.

Web of Science Quartiles
WOS Quartile: Q1

Quartiles By JIFCollectionQuartileRankPercentage
Category: BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGYSCIEQ149/328
Category: BIOLOGYSCIEQ16/106
Quartiles By JCICollectionQuartileRankPercentage
Category: BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGYSCIEQ129/328
Category: BIOLOGYSCIEQ17/106
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  • Journals In The Same Subject Area
  • CiteScore Trends
  • Self Citation Trends
  • Annual Article Volume Trends
  • Journal Title h-index CiteScore
    NATURE MEDICINE49773.90
    CELL70567.80
    Molecular Cancer10355.00
    Molecular Plant8539.20
    Annual Review of Biochemistry26835.30
    TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY17225.90
    PROGRESS IN LIPID RESEARCH13234.60
    TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE16024.00
    EXPERIMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE6822.60
    Molecular Cell35627.00
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