PLOS Biology
Template:Short description Template:Main otherTemplate:Namespace detectScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherTemplate:Main otherTemplate:Main otherTemplate:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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]
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.
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