Journal Impact Factor-14

Founded	2000 2003 (public operations)
Founder	Patrick O. Brown and Michael Eisen
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Levi's Plaza San Francisco, California
Key people	Alison Mudditt (CEO)
Publication types	Academic journals
Nonfiction topics	Science

PLOS (for Public Library of Science) is a nonprofit open-access science, technology and medicine publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a library of open-access journals and other scientific literature under an open-content license. It launched its first journal, PLOS Biology, in October 2003 and publishes seven journals, as of October 2015. The organization is based in San Francisco, California, and has a European editorial office in Cambridge, England. The publications are primarily funded by payments from the authors.

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Publications

Title	Inception	ISSN
PLOS Biology	2003-10-01	ISSN 1544-9173
PLOS Medicine	2004-10-01	ISSN 1549-1676
PLOS Computational Biology	2005-05-01	ISSN 1553-7374
PLOS Genetics	2005-06-01	ISSN 1553-7404
PLOS Pathogens	2005-09-01	ISSN 1549-1676
PLOS Clinical Trials (later merged into PLOS ONE)	2006-04-01	ISSN 1555-5887
PLOS ONE	2006-12-01	ISSN 1932-6203
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases	2007-10-01	ISSN 1935-2735
PLOS Hub for Clinical Trials	2007-09-01	—
PLOS Currents	2009-08-01	ISSN 2157-3999
PLOS Climate	2021	ISSN 2767-3200
PLOS Digital Health	2021	ISSN 2767-3170
PLOS Global Public Health	2021	ISSN 2767-3375
PLOS Sustainability and Transformation	2021	ISSN 2767-3197
PLOS Water	2021	ISSN 2767-3219

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