PLoS Pathogens

10.7k papers and 579.4k indexed citations i.

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The 10.7k papers published in PLoS Pathogens in the last decades have received a total of 579.4k indexed citations. Papers published in PLoS Pathogens usually cover Epidemiology (3.4k papers), Molecular Biology (3.1k papers) and Immunology (3.0k papers) specifically the topics of HIV Research and Treatment (1.0k papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (933 papers) and Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research (835 papers). The most active scholars publishing in PLoS Pathogens are Eric P. Skaar, Peter Palese, George Dimopoulos, Paul D. Bieniasz, Anice C. Lowen, John Steel, Alexander R. Horswill, Blaise R. Boles, Konstantin A. Tsetsarkin and Samira Mubareka.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in PLoS Pathogens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in PLoS Pathogens. 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 Pathogens.

Countries where authors publish in PLoS Pathogens

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in PLoS Pathogens. 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 Pathogens with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites PLoS Pathogens 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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