Downloaded on 2/9/2025 10:49:12 2023 Journal Performance Data for: PLoS One Open Access since 2006 ISSN EISSN 1932-6203 1932-6203 JCR ABBREVIATION ISO ABBREVIATION PLOS ONE PLoS One Journal Information EDITION CATEGORY Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES LANGUAGES REGION 1ST ELECTRONIC JCR YEAR English USA 2009 Publisher Information PUBLISHER ADDRESS PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 1160 BATTERY STREET, STE 100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 Journal Citation Reports ™ 1-23 © 2025 Clarivate Journal's Performance Journal Impact Factor The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is a journal-level metric calculated from data indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. It should be used with careful attention to the many factors that influence citation rates, such as the volume of publication and citations characteristics of the subject area and type of journal. The Journal Impact Factor can complement expert opinion and informed peer review. In the case of academic evaluation for tenure, it is inappropriate to use a journal-level metric as a proxy measure for individual researchers, institutions, or articles. Learn more 2023 JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR 2023 JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR WITHOUT SELF CITATIONS 2.9 2.8 Journal Impact Factor Trend 2023 Journal Citation Reports ™ 2-23 © 2025 Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is calculated using the following metrics Citations in 2023 to items published in 2021 (57,051) 2022 (35,576) 92,627 = Number of citable items in 2021 (16,112) + 2022 (15,515) = 2.9 = 2.8 31,627 Journal Impact Factor without self cites is calculated using the following metrics Citations in 2023 to items published in 2021 (57,051) + 2022 (35,576) - Self Citations in 2023 to items published in 2021 (2,289) + 2022 (1,583) 92,627 3,872 = Number of citable items in 2021 (16,112) + 2022 (15,515) Journal Citation Reports ™ 3-23 31,627 © 2025 Clarivate Journal Impact Factor Contributing Items Citable Items (31,627) TITLE CITATION COUNT COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy: A longitudinal study Authors: Fridman, Ariel;Gershon, Rachel;Gneezy, Ayelet Volume: 16 Accession number: WOS:000641475400015 Document Type: Article 126 Psychological impacts from COVID-19 among university students: Risk factors across seven states in the United States Authors: Browning, Matthew H. E. M.;Reigner, Nathan;Metcalf, Elizabeth Covelli;D'Antonio, Ashley;Helbich, Marco;Bratman, Gregory N.;Alvarez, Hector Olvera;Larson, Lincoln R.;Sharaievska, Iryna;Rigolon, Alessandro; et al. Volume: 16 Accession number: WOS:000608044300004 Document Type: Article 123 An empirical survey of data augmentation for time series classification with neural networks Authors: Iwana, Brian Kenji;Uchida, Seiichi Volume: 16 Accession number: WOS:000678120600011 Document Type: Article 98 Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic Authors: Gadarian, Shana Kushner;Goodman, Sara Wallace;Pepinsky, Thomas B. Volume: 16 Accession number: WOS:000638119900043 Document Type: Article 97 The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data Authors: Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley;Biswas, Siddhartha;Perreira, Krista M. Volume: 16 Accession number: WOS:000626604300015 Document Type: Article 94 Showing 1-5 rows of 31,627 total (use export in the relevant section to download the full table) Journal Citation Reports ™ 4-23 © 2025 Clarivate Journal Impact Factor Contributing Items Citing Sources (11,425) SOURCE NAME COUNT PLOS ONE 3,872 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 1,756 FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 1,103 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES 1,008 SUSTAINABILITY 905 HELIYON 759 BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 678 BMJ OPEN 662 VACCINES 607 JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE 582 HEALTHCARE 524 FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 516 CUREUS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE 514 FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY 399 NUTRIENTS 376 VIRUSES-BASEL 367 ANIMALS 344 FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY 326 APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 325 CANCERS 318 Showing 1-20 rows of 11,425 total (use export in the relevant section to download the full table) Journal Citation Reports ™ 5-23 © 2025 Clarivate Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) 0.88 The Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) is the average Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) of citable items (articles & reviews) published by a journal over a recent three year period. The average JCI in a category is 1. Journals with a JCI of 1.5 have 50% more citation impact than the average in that category. It may be used alongside other metrics to help you evaluate journals. Learn more Journal Citation Reports ™ 6-23 © 2025 Clarivate Total Citations 808,083 The total number of times that a journal has been cited by all journals included in the database in the JCR year. Citations to journals listed in JCR are compiled annually from the JCR years combined database, regardless of which JCR edition lists the journal. Journal Citation Reports ™ 7-23 © 2025 Clarivate Citation Distribution The Citation Distribution shows the frequency with which items published in the year or two years prior were cited in the JCR data year (i.e., the component of the calculation of the JIF). The graph has similar functionality as the JIF Trend graph, including hover-over data descriptions for each data point, and an interactive legend where each data element's legend can be used as a toggle. You can view Articles, Reviews, or Non-Citable (other) items to the JIF numerator. Learn more ARTICLE CITATION MEDIAN REVIEW CITATION MEDIAN UNLINKED CITATIONS 2 3 2,975 0 times cited ARTICLES REVIEWS OTHER 7,310 209 852 Journal Citation Reports ™ 8-23 © 2025 Clarivate Open Access (OA) The data included in this tile summarizes the items published in the journal in the JCR data year and in the previous two years. This three-year set of published items is used to provide descriptive analysis of the content and community of the journal.Learn more Items TOTAL CITABLE % OF CITABLE OA 46,172 99.34% CITABLE NON-CITABLE GOLD OPEN ACCESS OTHER (NON-CITABLE ITEMS) 45,868 / 96.60% 1,308 / 2.75% SUBSCRIPTION OR BRONZE 304 / 0.64% Citations* TOTAL CITABLE % OF CITABLE OA 96,024 99.72% CITABLE GOLD OPEN ACCESS 95,752 / 96.20% SUBSCRIPTION OR BRONZE 272 / 0.27% NON-CITABLE OTHER (NON-CITABLE ITEMS) 140 / 0.14% UNLINKED CITATIONS 3,366 / 3.38% * Citations in 2023 to items published in (2021-2023) Journal Citation Reports ™ 9-23 © 2025 Clarivate Rank by Journal Impact factor Journals within a category are sorted in descending order by Journal Impact Factor (JIF) resulting in the Category Ranking below. A separate rank is shown for each category in which the journal is listed in JCR. Beginning in 2023, ranks are calculated by category. Learn more CATEGORY CATEGORY MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES BIOLOGY 32/134 N/A JCR YEAR JIF RANK 2023 32/134 QUART JIF PERCENTILE ILE Q1 76.5 Rank by JIF before 2023 for MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES Rank by JIF before 2023 for BIOLOGY EDITION EDITION Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) JCR YEAR QUART JIF PERCENTILE ILE JCR YEAR 2022 26/73 Q2 65.1 2022 N/A N/A N/A 2021 29/74 Q2 61.49 2021 N/A N/A N/A 2020 26/72 Q2 64.58 2020 N/A N/A N/A 2019 27/71 Q2 62.68 2019 N/A N/A N/A 2018 24/69 Q2 65.94 2018 N/A N/A N/A 2017 15/64 Q1 77.34 2017 N/A N/A N/A 2016 15/64 Q1 77.34 2016 N/A N/A N/A 2015 11/63 Q1 83.33 2015 N/A N/A N/A 2014 9/57 Q1 85.09 2014 N/A N/A N/A 2013 8/55 Q1 86.36 2013 N/A N/A N/A 2012 7/56 Q1 88.39 2012 N/A N/A N/A 2011 N/A N/A N/A 2011 12/85 Q1 86.47 2010 N/A N/A N/A 2010 12/86 Q1 86.63 2009 N/A N/A N/A 2009 10/76 Q1 87.50 JIF RANK Journal Citation Reports ™ 10-23 JIF RANK QUART JIF PERCENTILE ILE © 2025 Clarivate Rank by Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) Journals within a category are sorted in descending order by Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) resulting in the Category Ranking below. A separate rank is shown for each category in which the journal is listed in JCR. Data for the most recent year is presented at the top of the list, with other years shown in reverse chronological order.Learn more CATEGORY MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES 33/135 JCR YEAR JCI RANK QUART JCI PERCENTILE ILE 2023 33/135 Q1 75.93 2022 29/134 Q1 78.73 2021 28/135 Q1 79.63 2020 29/128 Q1 77.73 2019 29/126 Q1 77.38 2018 24/121 Q1 80.58 2017 20/115 Q1 83.04 Journal Citation Reports ™ 11-23 © 2025 Clarivate Citation network Cited Half-life 8.0 years The Cited Half-Life is the median age of the items in this journal that were cited in the JCR year. Half of a journal's cited items were published more recently than the cited half-life. TOTAL NUMBER OF CITES NON-SELF CITATIONS SELF CITATIONS 808,083 790,101 17,982 # OF CITES FROM CUMULATIVE 2023 % # OF CITING SOURCES 808,083 citations 100.00% 17,090 sources 6,903 citations 0.85% 2,784 sources 35,576 citations 5.26% 7,513 sources 57,051 citations 12.32% 9,707 sources 59,094 citations 19.63% 9,960 sources 53,314 citations 26.23% 9,400 sources 59,638 citations 33.61% 9,724 sources 66,488 citations 41.84% 9,731 sources 66,756 citations 50.10% 9,661 sources 81,955 citations 60.24% 10,192 sources 85,505 citations 70.82% 9,501 sources Previous years: 235,803 citations Journal Citation Reports ™ 12-23 © 2025 Clarivate Citing titles in all years PLoS One SOURCE NAME COUNT All Others 2,382 1 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES 18,652 2 PLoS One 17,982 3 Scientific Reports 14,860 4 Frontiers in Immunology 5,806 5 Heliyon 4,581 6 Frontiers in Microbiology 4,569 7 Cancers 4,431 8 Nutrients 4,315 9 Frontiers in Plant Science 4,170 10 Science of The Total Environment 4,030 11 Cells 3,845 12 Frontiers in Public Health 3,813 13 Animals 3,790 14 Nature Communications 3,711 15 Journal of Clinical Medicine 3,672 16 Microorganisms 3,664 17 Biomedicines 3,351 18 Plants-Basel 3,328 19 Sustainability 3,078 20 BMJ Open 3,048 Showing 1 - 20 rows of 14708 total (use export in the relevant section to download the full table) Journal Citation Reports ™ 13-23 © 2025 Clarivate Citing Half-life 7.8 years The Citing Half-Life is the median age of items in other publications cited by this journal in the JCR year. TOTAL NUMBER OF CITES NON-SELF CITATIONS SELF CITATIONS 732,163 714,181 17,982 # OF CITES FROM CUMULATIVE 2023 % 732,163 citations # OF CITED SOURCES 100.00% 113,073 sources 8,903 citations 1.22% 4,446 sources 44,028 citations 7.23% 14,296 sources 69,190 citations 16.68% 17,792 sources 73,084 citations 26.66% 18,491 sources 51,126 citations 33.64% 15,292 sources 46,592 citations 40.01% 14,389 sources 42,216 citations 45.77% 13,592 sources 37,508 citations 50.90% 12,273 sources 34,736 citations 55.64% 11,359 sources 30,530 citations 59.81% 10,398 sources Previous years: 294,541 citations Journal Citation Reports ™ 14-23 © 2025 Clarivate Cited titles in all years PLoS One SOURCE NAME COUNT All Others 83,630 1 PLoS One 17,982 2 Scientific Reports 5,480 3 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 4,571 4 LANCET 3,986 5 NATURE 3,855 6 SCIENCE 3,326 7 INT J ENV RES PUB HE 2,848 8 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 2,688 9 BMJ-British Medical Journal 2,604 10 NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 2,545 11 BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 2,435 12 JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 2,154 13 BMJ Open 2,100 14 Frontiers in Psychology 1,972 15 Nature Communications 1,843 16 Sustainability 1,840 17 BIOINFORMATICS 1,744 18 JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 1,547 19 ARXIV 1,372 20 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES 1,337 Showing 1 - 20 rows of 29443 total (use export in the relevant section to download the full table) Journal Citation Reports ™ 15-23 © 2025 Clarivate Journal Citation Relationships Cited Data Top 20 journals citing PLOS ONE by number of citations Journal Citation Reports ™ 16-23 © 2025 Clarivate Citing Data Top 20 journals cited by PLOS ONE by number of citations Journal Citation Reports ™ 17-23 © 2025 Clarivate Content metrics Source data This tile shows the breakdown of document types published by the journal. Citable Items are Articles and Reviews. For the purposes of calculating JIF, a JCR year considers the publications of that journal in the two prior years. Learn more 14,545 total citable items ARTICLES REVIEWS COMBINED (C) OTHER DOCUMENT TYPES (O) PERCENTAGE NUMBER IN JCR YEAR 2023 (A) 13,972 573 14,545 360 98% NUMBER OF REFERENCES (B) 696,330 34,742 731,072 1,091 100% RATIO (B/A) 49.8 60.6 50.3 3.0 Average JIF Percentile The Average Journal Impact Factor Percentile takes the sum of the JIF Percentile rank for each category under consideration, then calculates the average of those values. Learn more ALL CATEGORIES AVERAGE MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES 76.5 76.5 Journal Citation Reports ™ 18-23 © 2025 Clarivate Contributions by Organizations Organizations that have contributed the most papers to the journal in the most recent three-year period. Learn more RANK ORGANIZATION COUNT 1 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM 1370 2 UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 1098 3 HARVARD UNIVERSITY 819 4 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 582 5 CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) 531 6 UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF OHIO 506 7 EGYPTIAN KNOWLEDGE BANK (EKB) 485 8 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 452 Showing 1 - 8 rows of 31257 total (use export in the relevant section to download the full table) Contributions by country/region Countries or Regions that have contributed the most papers to the journal in the most recent threeyear period. Learn more RANK COUNTRY/REGION COUNT 1 USA 11771 2 CHINA MAINLAND 6239 3 ENGLAND 4108 4 GERMANY (FED REP GER) 3009 5 JAPAN 2802 6 CANADA 2567 7 AUSTRALIA 2462 8 SOUTH KOREA 1824 Showing 1 - 8 rows of 198 total (use export in the relevant section to download the full table) Journal Citation Reports ™ 19-23 © 2025 Clarivate Additional metrics Eigenfactor score 0.59334 The Eigenfactor Score is a reflection of the density of the network of citations around the journal using 5 years of cited content as cited by the Current Year. It considers both the number of citations and the source of those citations, so that highly cited sources will influence the network more than less cited sources. The Eigenfactor calculation does not include journal self-citations. Learn more Normalized Eigenfactor 130.37468 The Normalized Eigenfactor Score is the Eigenfactor score normalized, by rescaling the total number of journals in the JCR each year, so that the average journal has a score of 1. Journals can then be compared and influence measured by their score relative to 1. Learn more Journal Citation Reports ™ 20-23 © 2025 Clarivate Article influence score 0.886 The Article Influence Score normalizes the Eigenfactor Score according to the cumulative size of the cited journal across the prior five years. The mean Article Influence Score for each article is 1.00. A score greater than 1.00 indicates that each article in the journal has above-average influence. Learn more Journal Citation Reports ™ 21-23 © 2025 Clarivate 5 year Impact Factor 3.3 The 5-year Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year by the total number of articles published in the five previous years. 5 year Impact Factor calculation Citations in 2023 to items published in [2018-2022] (264,673) 264,673 = Number of citable items in [2018-2022] (80,879) Journal Citation Reports ™ 22-23 = 3.3 80,879 © 2025 Clarivate Immediacy Index 0.5 The Immediacy Index is the count of citations in the current year to the journal that reference content in this same year. Journals that have a consistently high Immediacy Index attract citations rapidly. Learn more Immediacy Index calculation Cites in 2023 to items published in [2023] 6,903 = Number of items published in [2023] Journal Citation Reports ™ 23-23 = 0.5 14,545 © 2025 Clarivate