Talk : OpenAccess is changing what can be found :

PLoS quality


Original journals

14.1 for PLoS Biology (14.7 in 2006);

13.8 for PLoS Medicine (8.4 in 2006).

Newer, "Community" journals

4.9 for PLoS Computational Biology;

7.7 for PLoS Genetics

6.0 for PLoS Pathogens.

(based on only around six months worth of publications in 2005, and are likely to increase!)

Although the impact factor is an over-used and abused measure of scientific quality, it is a journal metric that is important for the research community, and so until there are alternatives, PLoS has to pay attention to the impact factor.

http://www.plos.org/cms/node/233

Ioan-Iovitz Popescu, 2002

http://www.geocities.com/iipopescu/Jo_rankingb.htm


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