PLOS Pathogens
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PLOS Pathogens is a
PLOS Pathogens began operation in September 2005. It was the fifth journal of the
Journal
Scope
The journal scope of PLOS Pathogens is to feature PLOS Pathogens publishes original research and commentary that significantly advance the understanding of pathogens and how they interact with their host organisms.[citation needed]
Topics include (but are not limited to) adaptive and innate immune defenses as well as pathogen countermeasures, emerging pathogens, evolution, genomics and gene regulation, model host organisms, pathogen-cell biology, pathogenesis, prions, proteomics and signal transduction, rational vaccine design, structural biology, and virulence factors.[1]
Content
PLOS Pathogens publishes primary research articles, Pearls, Research Matters, Reviews, Opinions and occasional Editorials.[2]
Metrics
ALMs are available, upon publication, for every article published by PLOS.[3]
Abstracting and Indexing
PLOS Pathogens is indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), EMBASE, EMBASE, SCOPUS, Zoological Record, and Web of Science.[4]
Open Access
PLOS Pathogens publishes under the Open Access license PLOS applies to all its published works, the Creative Commons Attribution license[5] (CC BY).
PLOS Pathogens Business Model
PLOS's business model requires in most cases that authors pay publication fees. PLOS provides individual and institutional fee support programs through its Global Participation Initiatives, Publication Fee Assistance and Institutional Fee Support.[6]
Measures of Impact
PLOS Pathogens uses Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) to measure the influence of articles based on their individual merits rather than using the journal impact factor. A signpost in the upper right of every article provides summary metrics of citations, views, shares and bookmarks.[7]
References
- ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ Eldermire, Erin. "LibGuides: Measuring your research impact: PLoS Article-Level Metrics". guides.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ^ "PLOS Pathogens: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09.