PLoS Genetics: impact and ranking
PLoS Genetics has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.57 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,073 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 341. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.57 #2,073 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 341 #345 of 18,122
- Citations
- 878k #434 of 18,122
- Works
- 12k 74.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of PLoS Genetics?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for PLoS Genetics: 4.57, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks PLoS Genetics #2,073 of 18,122 journals, in the top 11%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of PLoS Genetics?
OpenAlex gives PLoS Genetics an h-index of 341: 341 of its papers have each been cited at least 341 times. That ranks #345 of 18,122 journals.
How much does PLoS Genetics publish?
OpenAlex records 11,774 works in PLoS Genetics from 1955 to 2026, cited 878,398 times in all, 74.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #434 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About PLoS Genetics
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1553-7390
- In OpenAlex
- 1955 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists PLoS Genetics as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,043.
- Website
- www.plosgenetics.org
- OpenAlex record
- S103870658
Journals ranked near PLoS Genetics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below PLoS Genetics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,994 | Polymer | 4.68 | 342 |
| 2,045 | Aquaculture | 4.61 | 278 |
| 2,063 | Biological Conservation | 4.58 | 326 |
| 2,074 | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 4.56 | 365 |
| 2,086 | JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 4.55 | 489 |
| 2,095 | Circulation Research | 4.53 | 505 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.