PLOS Genetics

PLOS Genetics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal established in 2005 and published by the Public Library of Science.^[1] The founding editor-in-chief was Wayne N. Frankel (Columbia University Medical Center). The current editors-in-chief are Gregory S. Barsh (HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology and Stanford University School of Medicine) and Gregory P. Copenhaver (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). The journal covers research on all aspects of genetics and genomics.

PLOS Genetics

Discipline	Genetics
Language	English
Edited by	Gregory S. Barsh, Gregory P. Copenhaver
Publication details
History	2005–present
Publisher	Public Library of Science
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution License
Impact factor	6.020 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	PLoS Genet.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	PGLEB5
ISSN	1553-7390 (print) 1553-7404 (web)
LCCN	2004216451
OCLC no.	57175564
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• AGRICOLA
• Biological Abstracts^[2]
• BIOSIS Previews^[3]
• CAB Abstracts^[4]
• Chemical Abstracts Service^[5]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences^[3]
• EBSCO databases^[6]
• Embase^[7]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[8]
• Science Citation Index^[3]
• Scopus^[9]
• The Zoological Record^[3]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.917.^[10]

Research Prize

Since its tenth year of publication, the journal annually awards the $5000 PLOS Genetics Research Prize for the best paper published in the previous year based on nominations from members of the genetics community.^[11][12]

References

 

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1. Frankel, W.N. (2005). "Introducing PLoS Genetics". PLOS Genetics. 1 (1): 227–8. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0010021. PMC 1183532. PMID 7411333.
2. "Biological Abstracts – Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
3. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
4. "Serials cited". CAB Abstracts. CABI. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
5. "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service. American Chemical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
6. "PLOS Genetics". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
7. "Embase Coverage". Embase. Elsevier. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
8. "PLOS Genetics". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
9. "Source details: PLOS Genetics". Scopus preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
10. "PLOS Genetics". 2019 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2020.
11. "PLOS Genetics launch $5000 research prize". Front Line Genomics. 27 August 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
12. "Launching the PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2015". PLOS. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2018.

External links

• Official website