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PLoS Computational Biology

Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
ISSN: 1553734X, 15537358
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
3.8
SJR
1.652
CiteScore
7.1
Categories
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Ecology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Genetics
Modeling and Simulation
Molecular Biology
Areas
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Computer Science
Environmental Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Years of issue
2005-2025
journal names
PLoS Computational Biology
PLOS COMPUT BIOL
Publications
11 455
Citations
481 888
h-index
238
Publications
4 236
Citations
261 439
Top-3 citing journals
PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS Computational Biology (15371 citations)
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE (11106 citations)
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports (10627 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Harvard University
Harvard University (323 publications)
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (243 publications)
Harvard University
Harvard University (108 publications)
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (107 publications)
Imperial College London
Imperial College London (79 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (5223 publications)
United Kingdom (1605 publications)
Germany (1180 publications)
USA (1766 publications)
United Kingdom (577 publications)
Germany (436 publications)

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Citing journals

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PLoS Computational Biology
15371 citations, 3.19%
PLoS ONE
11106 citations, 2.3%
Scientific Reports
10627 citations, 2.21%
Nature Communications
6585 citations, 1.37%
Bioinformatics
4862 citations, 1.01%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
4798 citations, 1%
eLife
4165 citations, 0.86%
BMC Bioinformatics
3644 citations, 0.76%
Nucleic Acids Research
3636 citations, 0.75%
Physical Review E
3059 citations, 0.63%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
2955 citations, 0.61%
NeuroImage
2902 citations, 0.6%
Frontiers in Microbiology
2683 citations, 0.56%
Methods in Molecular Biology
2661 citations, 0.55%
Biophysical Journal
2640 citations, 0.55%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2548 citations, 0.53%
Briefings in Bioinformatics
2496 citations, 0.52%
BMC Genomics
2097 citations, 0.44%
Journal of Theoretical Biology
1863 citations, 0.39%
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
1765 citations, 0.37%
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
1731 citations, 0.36%
Journal of Neuroscience
1686 citations, 0.35%
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
1574 citations, 0.33%
Frontiers in Genetics
1427 citations, 0.3%
Journal of Neurophysiology
1296 citations, 0.27%
Molecular Biology and Evolution
1294 citations, 0.27%
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
1273 citations, 0.26%
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
1250 citations, 0.26%
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
1249 citations, 0.26%
Journal of Chemical Physics
1241 citations, 0.26%
BMC Systems Biology
1222 citations, 0.25%
Neuron
1189 citations, 0.25%
Microbiology Resource Announcements
1181 citations, 0.25%
Frontiers in Immunology
1151 citations, 0.24%
Frontiers in Neuroscience
1134 citations, 0.24%
Cerebral Cortex
1130 citations, 0.23%
Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics
1126 citations, 0.23%
Cell Reports
1117 citations, 0.23%
iScience
1047 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Molecular Biology
1046 citations, 0.22%
Frontiers in Physiology
1031 citations, 0.21%
Journal of Biological Chemistry
1022 citations, 0.21%
Current Opinion in Structural Biology
1016 citations, 0.21%
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
984 citations, 0.2%
Neural Computation
901 citations, 0.19%
PeerJ
876 citations, 0.18%
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
875 citations, 0.18%
PLoS Genetics
873 citations, 0.18%
Chaos
861 citations, 0.18%
Nature
842 citations, 0.17%
Current Biology
842 citations, 0.17%
Genome Biology
834 citations, 0.17%
Entropy
814 citations, 0.17%
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
788 citations, 0.16%
Genome Research
781 citations, 0.16%
Communications Biology
780 citations, 0.16%
Human Brain Mapping
777 citations, 0.16%
Viruses
773 citations, 0.16%
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
749 citations, 0.16%
Frontiers in Plant Science
747 citations, 0.16%
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
739 citations, 0.15%
Physical Biology
738 citations, 0.15%
mSystems
717 citations, 0.15%
PLoS Biology
714 citations, 0.15%
F1000Research
677 citations, 0.14%
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
672 citations, 0.14%
Genome Biology and Evolution
661 citations, 0.14%
Genes
660 citations, 0.14%
Microorganisms
653 citations, 0.14%
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
647 citations, 0.13%
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
629 citations, 0.13%
Nature Neuroscience
629 citations, 0.13%
Science advances
629 citations, 0.13%
Cell
626 citations, 0.13%
Biochemistry
619 citations, 0.13%
Protein Science
615 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
615 citations, 0.13%
Molecular BioSystems
615 citations, 0.13%
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
607 citations, 0.13%
Physical Review Letters
606 citations, 0.13%
Molecular Ecology
594 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Computational Neuroscience
591 citations, 0.12%
Computers in Biology and Medicine
582 citations, 0.12%
Royal Society Open Science
580 citations, 0.12%
Cancers
566 citations, 0.12%
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
563 citations, 0.12%
Microbiome
560 citations, 0.12%
npj Systems Biology and Applications
558 citations, 0.12%
Neural Networks
552 citations, 0.11%
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
544 citations, 0.11%
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
543 citations, 0.11%
Molecules
540 citations, 0.11%
Molecular Systems Biology
535 citations, 0.11%
Epidemics
534 citations, 0.11%
ISME Journal
534 citations, 0.11%
PLoS Pathogens
532 citations, 0.11%
Current Opinion in Systems Biology
531 citations, 0.11%
Cell Systems
522 citations, 0.11%
mBio
519 citations, 0.11%
Frontiers in Psychology
514 citations, 0.11%
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Springer Nature
83552 citations, 17.34%
Elsevier
80254 citations, 16.65%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
52775 citations, 10.95%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
30153 citations, 6.26%
Wiley
29404 citations, 6.1%
Oxford University Press
25545 citations, 5.3%
Frontiers Media S.A.
21484 citations, 4.46%
MDPI
18176 citations, 3.77%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
11668 citations, 2.42%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
11348 citations, 2.35%
Taylor & Francis
7338 citations, 1.52%
American Society for Microbiology
6115 citations, 1.27%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
5477 citations, 1.14%
The Royal Society
5242 citations, 1.09%
American Physical Society (APS)
4931 citations, 1.02%
eLife Sciences Publications
4703 citations, 0.98%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
3967 citations, 0.82%
IOP Publishing
3958 citations, 0.82%
AIP Publishing
2799 citations, 0.58%
Society for Neuroscience
2422 citations, 0.5%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2407 citations, 0.5%
SAGE
2349 citations, 0.49%
American Physiological Society
2087 citations, 0.43%
MIT Press
1976 citations, 0.41%
Annual Reviews
1872 citations, 0.39%
Hindawi Limited
1795 citations, 0.37%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
1675 citations, 0.35%
Cambridge University Press
1624 citations, 0.34%
Mary Ann Liebert
1428 citations, 0.3%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
1405 citations, 0.29%
Biophysical Society
1214 citations, 0.25%
The Company of Biologists
1185 citations, 0.25%
Microbiology Society
1173 citations, 0.24%
PeerJ
1136 citations, 0.24%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1051 citations, 0.22%
F1000 Research
1047 citations, 0.22%
World Scientific
1029 citations, 0.21%
Portland Press
804 citations, 0.17%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
779 citations, 0.16%
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
687 citations, 0.14%
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
603 citations, 0.13%
JMIR Publications
589 citations, 0.12%
Pleiades Publishing
545 citations, 0.11%
Rockefeller University Press
540 citations, 0.11%
Impact Journals
525 citations, 0.11%
BMJ
480 citations, 0.1%
IGI Global
434 citations, 0.09%
Walter de Gruyter
433 citations, 0.09%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
420 citations, 0.09%
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
415 citations, 0.09%
Scientific Societies
369 citations, 0.08%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
368 citations, 0.08%
Research Square Platform LLC
365 citations, 0.08%
Spandidos Publications
326 citations, 0.07%
European Molecular Biology Organization
300 citations, 0.06%
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
299 citations, 0.06%
American Society for Clinical Investigation
295 citations, 0.06%
IOS Press
286 citations, 0.06%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
274 citations, 0.06%
274 citations, 0.06%
S. Karger AG
267 citations, 0.06%
University of Chicago Press
229 citations, 0.05%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
228 citations, 0.05%
EDP Sciences
225 citations, 0.05%
The American Association of Immunologists
220 citations, 0.05%
206 citations, 0.04%
American Society of Hematology
204 citations, 0.04%
Pensoft Publishers
196 citations, 0.04%
IntechOpen
192 citations, 0.04%
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
182 citations, 0.04%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
179 citations, 0.04%
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
172 citations, 0.04%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
168 citations, 0.03%