PLoS Pathogens: impact and ranking
PLoS Pathogens has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.47 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,499 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 314. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.47 #1,499 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 314 #453 of 18,122
- Citations
- 870k #439 of 18,122
- Works
- 13k 67.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of PLoS Pathogens?
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 Pathogens: 5.47, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks PLoS Pathogens #1,499 of 18,122 journals, in the top 8%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of PLoS Pathogens?
OpenAlex gives PLoS Pathogens an h-index of 314: 314 of its papers have each been cited at least 314 times. That ranks #453 of 18,122 journals.
How much does PLoS Pathogens publish?
OpenAlex records 12,940 works in PLoS Pathogens from 1919 to 2026, cited 869,743 times in all, 67.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #439 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About PLoS Pathogens
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1553-7366
- In OpenAlex
- 1919 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists PLoS Pathogens 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.plospathogens.org
- OpenAlex record
- S2004986
Journals ranked near PLoS Pathogens
The journals with a page that stand just above and below PLoS Pathogens on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,468 | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 5.51 | 302 |
| 1,484 | Journal of Molecular Structure | 5.49 | 210 |
| 1,487 | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 5.49 | 499 |
| 1,506 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 5.45 | 500 |
| 1,521 | Journal of High Energy Physics | 5.41 | 376 |
| 1,525 | Neurocomputing | 5.39 | 258 |
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.