Plos Medicine

Journal Abbreviation: PLOS MED
Journal ISSN: 1549-1676

About Plos Medicine

PLoS Medicine gives the highest priority to papers on the conditions and risk factors that cause the greatest losses in years of healthy life worldwide. For a guide to the conditions and risk factors that we prioritize, see Tables 1.1 and 1.2 of Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors.<br/><br/>Within these priority areas we make decisions based on whether papers are likely to directly and substantially affect clinical practice or public health policy, or have implications of broad general interest for the direction of future, directly clinically relevant research. In addition, we seek to publish papers that address important topics in the ethics and reporting of medical research.

Year	Impact Factor (IF)	Total Articles	Total Cites
2024 (2025 update)	9.9	-	43413
2023	10.5	136	42360
2022	15.8	-	46220
2021	11.613	-	47916
2020	11.069	325	42445
2019	10.500	249	32312
2018	11.048	182	30689
2017	11.675	204	24232
2016	11.862	189	22665
2015	13.585	97	20499
2014	14.429	128	18649
2013	14.000	118	16975
2012	15.253	115	14820
2011	16.269	126	12574

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