PLoS ONE

291.2k papers and 8.1M indexed citations i.

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The 291.2k papers published in PLoS ONE in the last decades have received a total of 8.1M indexed citations. Papers published in PLoS ONE usually cover Molecular Biology (71.8k papers), Epidemiology (31.3k papers) and Genetics (22.8k papers) specifically the topics of Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS Infection (4.5k papers), Plant and animal studies (4.3k papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4.0k papers). The most active scholars publishing in PLoS ONE are Susan Holmes, Paul J. McMurdie, Adam P. Arkin, Morgan N. Price, Paramvir Dehal, Daniele Fanelli, Paul D. N. Hebert, Yong He, Mukesh Jain and Aaron E. Darling.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in PLoS ONE

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in PLoS ONE. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in PLoS ONE.

Countries where authors publish in PLoS ONE

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in PLoS ONE. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in PLoS ONE with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites PLoS ONE more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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