SourceScore
VELOCITY · 35% of composite

PLOS ONE Velocity

journals.plos.org · Academic

Citation Velocity tracks how often tier-1 publications and AI engines cite a source per week. The most volatile of the three sub-scores; refreshes most frequently.

B·70
B · 70

High volume but per-paper citation lower than top-tier; mass-base of academic citations.

What drives this Velocity score

  • Volume model
    Tens of thousands of papers/year vs Nature's ~3k.
Global rank
#118 of 130
By Velocity across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#19 of 19
Among academic sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 81
Global mean: 81
-11 below category

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