PLOS ONE
journals.plos.org ↗Open-access multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published by Public Library of Science.
A- — open-access pioneer; peer-review focused on methodological soundness, not novelty.
Peer-review checks methodology + ethics; novelty + significance left to readers; corrections public.
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About this sub-score →High volume but per-paper citation lower than top-tier; mass-base of academic citations.
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Citation Discipline
B·84- PLOS editorialMethodological-soundness model rather than novelty filter.
Modern Reference
A·88- Open-access standardPioneered the open-access publishing model.
Citation Velocity
B·70- Volume modelTens of thousands of papers/year vs Nature's ~3k.
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