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Impact Factor 2024-2025

PLoS One

2.6

PLoS One

Basic Journal Info

Country: United States
Journal ISSN: 1932-6203
Journal EISSN:1932-6203eissn
History2006-ongoing
PublisherPUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
Journal Hompage: Link
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Impact Factor Ranking

PLoS One

6008

Scope/Description:

PLOS ONE welcomes original research submissions from the natural sciences, medical research, engineering, as well as the related social sciences and humanities, including: -Primary research that contributes to the base of scientific knowledge, including interdisciplinary, replication studies, and negative or null results. -Systematic reviews whose methods ensure the comprehensive and unbiased sampling of existing literature. -Submissions describing methods, software, databases, or other tools that meet the journal’s criteria for utility, validation and availability. -Qualitative research that adheres to appropriate study design and reporting guidelines.


PLoS One | Journal Impact factor 2025 Trends

Impact Factor Trend 2000 - 2025

Impact Factor

The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric factor based on the yearly average number of citations on articles published by a particular journal in the last two years. In other words, the impact factor of 2024 - 2025 is the average of the number of cited publications divided by the citable publications of a journal. A journal impact factor is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. Normally, journals with higher impact factors are often deemed to have more influence than those with lower ones. However, the science community has also noted that review articles typically are more citable than research articles.Here you can check the journal performance trends based on last 20 years of data, also check the latest journal citation reports 2025. Also Check H-Index, SCImago journal rank and journal impact factor 2025.

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Impact Factor History

  • 2024/2025 Impact Factor 2.6
  • 2023 Impact Factor 2.9
  • 2022 Impact Factor 3.7
  • 2021 Impact Factor 3.752
  • 2020 Impact Factor 3.24
  • 2019 Impact Factor 2.776
  • 2018 Impact Factor 2.875
  • 2017 Impact Factor 3.0
  • 2016 Impact Factor 3.094
  • 2015 Impact Factor 3.504
  • 2014 Impact Factor 3.769
  • 2013 Impact Factor 4.05
  • 2012 Impact Factor 4.276
  • 2011 Impact Factor 4.62
  • 2010 Impact Factor 4.858
  • 2009 Impact Factor 4.291
  • 2008 Impact Factor 3.551
  • 2007 Impact Factor 2.007
  • 2006 Impact Factor NA
  • 2005 Impact Factor NA
  • 2004 Impact Factor NA
  • 2003 Impact Factor NA
  • 2002 Impact Factor NA
  • 2001 Impact Factor NA
  • 2000 Impact Factor NA

Note: impact factor data for reference only

Other Journal Impact Indicator

Any journal impact factor or scientometric indicator alone will not give you the full picture of a science journal. That’s why every year, scholars review current metrics to improve upon them and sometimes come up with new ones. There are also other factors to sider for example, H-Index, Self-Citation Ratio, SJR (SCImago Journal Rank Indicator) and SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper). Researchers may also consider the practical aspect of a journal such as publication fees, acceptance rate, review speed.




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