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| Categories | Rank | Trend in last 3 yrs |
| Medicine (all) | #15 of 793 |  down by 7 ranks |
Journal quality:
High
Last 4 years overview:
1027 Published Papers | 14245 Citations
Indexed in:
Scopus
Last updated:
19/07/2020
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CiteRatio |
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Determines the importance of a journal by taking a measure of frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. |
A measure of average citations received per peer-reviewed paper published in the journal. |
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10.55% from 2018
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13.910% from 2019
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SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) |
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) |
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Measures weighted citations received by the journal. Citation weighting depends on the categories and prestige of the citing journal. |
Measures actual citations received relative to citations expected for the journal's category. |
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4.84714% from 2019
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3.691% from 2019
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PLOS Medicine gives the highest priority to papers on the conditions and risk factors that cause the greatest losses in years of healthy life worldwide. For a guide to the conditions and risk factors that we prioritize, see Tables 1.1 and 1.2 of Global Burden of Disease and Ri...... Read More
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Blonder GE, Tinkham M, Klapwijk TM. Transition from metallic to tunneling regimes in superconducting microconstrictions: Excess current, charge imbalance, and supercurrent conversion. Phys Rev B. 1982;25(7):4515–4532. |
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After writing your paper autoformatting in PLOS Medicine, you can download it in multiple formats, viz., PDF, Docx, and LaTeX.
To be honest, the answer is no. The impact factor is one of the many elements that determine the quality of a journal. Few of these factors include review board, rejection rates, frequency of inclusion in indexes, and Eigenfactor. You need to assess all these factors before you make your final call.
We extracted this data from Sherpa Romeo to help researchers understand the access level of this journal in accordance with the Sherpa Romeo Archiving Policy for PLOS Medicine. The table below indicates the level of access a journal has as per Sherpa Romeo's archiving policy.
| RoMEO Colour | Archiving policy |
| Green | Can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher's version/PDF |
| Blue | Can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) or publisher's version/PDF |
| Yellow | Can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing) |
| White | Archiving not formally supported |
The 5 most common citation types in order of usage for PLOS Medicine are:.
| S. No. | Citation Style Type |
| 1. | Author Year |
| 2. | Numbered |
| 3. | Numbered (Superscripted) |
| 4. | Author Year (Cited Pages) |
| 5. | Footnote |
It is possible to find the Word template for any journal on Google. However, why use a template when you can write your entire manuscript on SciSpace , auto format it as per PLOS Medicine's guidelines and download the same in Word, PDF and LaTeX formats? Give us a try!.
Yes, SciSpace provides this functionality. After signing up, you would need to import your existing references from Word or Bib file to SciSpace. Then SciSpace would allow you to download your references in PLOS Medicine Endnote style according to Elsevier guidelines.
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