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PLOS One

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Summary

PLOS One is a scientific journal[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: DOAJ seal[3]
  • Instance of: APC-funded journal[4], open-access journal[5], academic journal[6]
  • Editor: PLOS ONE Editors[7]
  • Publisher: Public Library of Science[8]
  • Headquarters location: San Francisco[9]
  • Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic[10], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported[11], Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International[12], Creative Commons Attribution[13]
  • Commons category: Media from PLOS ONE[14]
  • Language of work or name: English[15]
  • Archives at: CLOCKSS[16]
  • Country of origin: United States[17]
  • Inception: 2006[18]
  • Significant event: created as open access[19]
  • Official website: http://www.plosone.org/[20], http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/24203[21], http://journals.plos.org/plosone/[22], http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/24215[23]
  • Main subject: science[24], medicine[25]
  • Catalog: Directory of Open Access Journals[26]
  • Product or material produced: works copyrighted by authors[27]
  • Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level: 1[28]
  • Title: PLOS ONE[29]
  • Has characteristic: article processing charge[30]
  • Editor-in-chief: Emily J Chenette[31]
  • Admission rate: 0.69[32], 0.433[33]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[34]
  • Social media followers: 130,295[35], 134,006[36]
  • Indexed in bibliographic review: Scopus[37], Science Citation Index Expanded[38]
  • Qualis rank: A1[39]

Why It Matters

PLOS One is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

FAQs

What awards did PLOS One receive?

Honors received include DOAJ seal[3].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. doaj.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. journals.plos.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . BFI 2012 journal list. wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . journals.plos.org. journals.plos.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . PLOS One. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . PLOS One. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . mjl.clarivate.com. Retrieved . mjl.clarivate.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . sucupira.capes.gov.br. Retrieved . sucupira.capes.gov.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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