Journal Title
PLoS Genetics

PLOS GENET

ISSN / eISSN
1553-7390 / 1553-7404
Aims and Scope
PLOS Genetics is run by an international Editorial Board, headed by the Editors-in-Chief, Greg Barsh (HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, and Stanford University School of Medicine) and Greg Copenhaver (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

Articles published in PLOS Genetics are archived in PubMed Central and cited in PubMed.
Subject Area

GENETICS & HEREDITY

CiteScore
9.00 View Trend
CiteScore Ranking
Category Quartile Rank
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Q1 #43/687
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Genetics (clinical) Q1 #12/90
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Genetics Q1 #56/328
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology Q1 #93/380
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Cancer Research Q1 #54/214
Web of Science Core Collection
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Indexed -
Category (Journal Citation Reports 2023) Quartile
GENETICS & HEREDITY - SCIE Q1
H-index
194
Country/Area of Publication
UNITED STATES
Publisher
Public Library of Science
Publication Frequency
Monthly
Year Publication Started
2005
Annual Article Volume
428
Open Access
YES
Contact
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 185 BERRY ST, STE 1300, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, CA, 94107
Verified Reviews
Note: Verified reviews are sourced from across review platforms and social media globally.
This magazine is difficult and of high quality, with strict manuscript review, but it has a low impact factor. This is because PLOS journals do not care about impact factor. This journal is highly regarded internationally but avoided domestically in China.
2022-12-06
The high-level journals that are required to be published in basically include PLoS Genetics, or Nature, which is one of the 82 journals in the Nature Index. It is a consensus that the editors are strict and serious.
2023-02-08

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