PLoS ONE: impact and ranking
PLoS ONE has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.41 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,359 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 593. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.41 #3,359 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 593 #43 of 18,122
- Citations
- 12.4M #7 of 18,122
- Works
- 343k 36.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of PLoS ONE?
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 ONE: 3.41, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks PLoS ONE #3,359 of 18,122 journals, in the top 19%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of PLoS ONE?
OpenAlex gives PLoS ONE an h-index of 593: 593 of its papers have each been cited at least 593 times. That ranks #43 of 18,122 journals.
How much does PLoS ONE publish?
OpenAlex records 343,137 works in PLoS ONE from 1806 to 2026, cited 12,413,630 times in all, 36.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #7 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1932-6203
- In OpenAlex
- 1806 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists PLoS ONE as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$2,382.
- Website
- www.plosone.org
- OpenAlex record
- S202381698
Journals ranked near PLoS ONE
The journals with a page that stand just above and below PLoS ONE on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,279 | Experimental Cell Research | 3.48 | 285 |
| 3,330 | American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology | 3.43 | 285 |
| 3,350 | Nanotechnology | 3.42 | 251 |
| 3,378 | Journal of Applied Physiology | 3.40 | 404 |
| 3,423 | Chemical Geology | 3.36 | 312 |
| 3,430 | Vaccine | 3.36 | 263 |
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.