PLoS Medicine

3.9k papers and 438.4k indexed citations i.

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The 3.9k papers published in PLoS Medicine in the last decades have received a total of 438.4k indexed citations. Papers published in PLoS Medicine usually cover Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (903 papers), Epidemiology (802 papers) and Infectious Diseases (726 papers) specifically the topics of Global Maternal and Child Health (405 papers), Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS Infection (332 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (203 papers). The most active scholars publishing in PLoS Medicine are George Davey Smith, Douglas G. Altman, Madhukar Pai, Christopher J L Murray and Vikram Patel.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in PLoS Medicine

Since Specialization
EngineeringComputer SciencePhysics and AstronomyMathematicsEarth and Planetary SciencesEnergyEnvironmental ScienceMaterials ScienceChemical EngineeringChemistryAgricultural and Biological SciencesVeterinaryDecision SciencesArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and AccountingSocial SciencesPsychologyEconomics, Econometrics and FinanceHealth ProfessionsDentistryMedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyNeuroscienceNursingImmunology and MicrobiologyPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

This network shows the specialization of papers published in PLoS Medicine. Nodes represent fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors.

Countries where authors publish in PLoS Medicine

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Total citations of papers

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

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2025