PLoS Medicine

4.0k papers and 447.2k indexed citations i.

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The 4.0k papers published in PLoS Medicine in the last decades have received a total of 447.2k indexed citations. Papers published in PLoS Medicine usually cover Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (909 papers), Epidemiology (810 papers) and Infectious Diseases (729 papers) specifically the topics of Global Maternal and Child Health (408 papers), Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS Infection (334 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (204 papers). The most active scholars publishing in PLoS Medicine are Douglas G. Altman, David Moher, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Alessandro Liberati, John P. A. Ioannidis, Peter C Gøtzsche, Colin Mathers, Dejan Lončar, Erik von Elm and Jan P. Vandenbroucke.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in PLoS Medicine

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Countries where authors publish in PLoS Medicine

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