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PLOS Digital Health

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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
7.7
SJR
1.831
CiteScore
7.5
Years of issue
2024-2025
journal names
PLOS Digital Health
Publications
714
Citations
6 678
h-index
30
Publications
713
Citations
6 664
Top-3 citing journals
Cureus
Cureus (138 citations)
PLOS Digital Health
PLOS Digital Health (136 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Harvard University
Harvard University (33 publications)
University College London
University College London (24 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (190 publications)
United Kingdom (85 publications)
Canada (47 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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Journal of Medical Internet Research
160 citations, 2.4%
Cureus
138 citations, 2.07%
PLOS Digital Health
136 citations, 2.04%
JMIR Medical Education
89 citations, 1.33%
Scientific Reports
88 citations, 1.32%
PLoS ONE
77 citations, 1.15%
npj Digital Medicine
77 citations, 1.15%
JMIR Formative Research
53 citations, 0.79%
Digital Health
49 citations, 0.73%
Healthcare
45 citations, 0.67%
BMC Medical Education
41 citations, 0.61%
IEEE Access
41 citations, 0.61%
Journal of Clinical Medicine
40 citations, 0.6%
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
37 citations, 0.55%
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
37 citations, 0.55%
Frontiers in Digital Health
36 citations, 0.54%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
30 citations, 0.45%
Frontiers in Public Health
29 citations, 0.43%
Sensors
29 citations, 0.43%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
28 citations, 0.42%
Medical Teacher
26 citations, 0.39%
Diagnostics
26 citations, 0.39%
JAMA network open
23 citations, 0.34%
Frontiers in Medicine
22 citations, 0.33%
International Journal of Medical Informatics
20 citations, 0.3%
BMJ Open
20 citations, 0.3%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
19 citations, 0.28%
The Lancet Digital Health
19 citations, 0.28%
JMIR Human Factors
19 citations, 0.28%
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
17 citations, 0.25%
Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics
17 citations, 0.25%
Medical Science Educator
15 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Medical Systems
15 citations, 0.22%
Nature Medicine
15 citations, 0.22%
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
14 citations, 0.21%
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
13 citations, 0.19%
BMC Public Health
13 citations, 0.19%
Mayo Clinic Proceedings Digital Health
13 citations, 0.19%
Internet Interventions
12 citations, 0.18%
Radiology
12 citations, 0.18%
Heliyon
12 citations, 0.18%
JMIR Medical Informatics
12 citations, 0.18%
JMIR Research Protocols
12 citations, 0.18%
PLOS Global Public Health
11 citations, 0.16%
Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence
11 citations, 0.16%
BMC Digital Health
11 citations, 0.16%
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
10 citations, 0.15%
Computers in Biology and Medicine
10 citations, 0.15%
BMJ Health and Care Informatics
10 citations, 0.15%
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
10 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Personalized Medicine
9 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
9 citations, 0.13%
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
9 citations, 0.13%
BMC Health Services Research
9 citations, 0.13%
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
9 citations, 0.13%
Cancers
9 citations, 0.13%
JMIR Mental Health
9 citations, 0.13%
Health Promotion International
8 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Surgical Education
8 citations, 0.12%
Scientific data
8 citations, 0.12%
Information (Switzerland)
8 citations, 0.12%
Frontiers in Psychiatry
8 citations, 0.12%
Communications in Computer and Information Science
8 citations, 0.12%
IEEE Sensors Journal
8 citations, 0.12%
Bioengineering
8 citations, 0.12%
JMIR AI
8 citations, 0.12%
Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration
8 citations, 0.12%
Nature Communications
7 citations, 0.1%
Electronics (Switzerland)
7 citations, 0.1%
Epidemics
7 citations, 0.1%
Children
7 citations, 0.1%
Patterns
7 citations, 0.1%
Communications Medicine
7 citations, 0.1%
AI and Ethics
7 citations, 0.1%
JMIR Aging
7 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
7 citations, 0.1%
Brain Sciences
6 citations, 0.09%
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
6 citations, 0.09%
Artificial Intelligence Review
6 citations, 0.09%
Expert Systems with Applications
6 citations, 0.09%
EClinicalMedicine
6 citations, 0.09%
Social Science and Medicine
6 citations, 0.09%
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
6 citations, 0.09%
Education and Information Technologies
6 citations, 0.09%
Malaria Journal
6 citations, 0.09%
International Journal of Retina and Vitreous
6 citations, 0.09%
Sustainability
6 citations, 0.09%
AI and Society
6 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Affective Disorders
6 citations, 0.09%
JCO clinical cancer informatics
6 citations, 0.09%
Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology
6 citations, 0.09%
BMJ
6 citations, 0.09%
JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
6 citations, 0.09%
Medical Advancements in Aging and Regenerative Technologies
6 citations, 0.09%
Information Fusion
5 citations, 0.07%
Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology
5 citations, 0.07%
BMC Psychiatry
5 citations, 0.07%
Frontiers in Psychology
5 citations, 0.07%
Neural Computing and Applications
5 citations, 0.07%
Behaviour and Information Technology
5 citations, 0.07%
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Springer Nature
1377 citations, 20.62%
Elsevier
1128 citations, 16.89%
JMIR Publications
521 citations, 7.8%
MDPI
479 citations, 7.17%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
333 citations, 4.99%
Wiley
320 citations, 4.79%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
319 citations, 4.78%
Taylor & Francis
252 citations, 3.77%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
244 citations, 3.65%
Frontiers Media S.A.
212 citations, 3.17%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
194 citations, 2.91%
SAGE
186 citations, 2.79%
Oxford University Press
140 citations, 2.1%
IGI Global
100 citations, 1.5%
BMJ
86 citations, 1.29%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
75 citations, 1.12%
American Medical Association (AMA)
50 citations, 0.75%
Research Square Platform LLC
36 citations, 0.54%
Emerald
31 citations, 0.46%
Mary Ann Liebert
25 citations, 0.37%
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
21 citations, 0.31%
Walter de Gruyter
19 citations, 0.28%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
19 citations, 0.28%
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
16 citations, 0.24%
IOP Publishing
16 citations, 0.24%
Massachusetts Medical Society
16 citations, 0.24%
Baishideng Publishing Group
16 citations, 0.24%
Cambridge University Press
15 citations, 0.22%
IntechOpen
9 citations, 0.13%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
8 citations, 0.12%
F1000 Research
7 citations, 0.1%
SLACK
7 citations, 0.1%
S. Karger AG
6 citations, 0.09%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
6 citations, 0.09%
IMR Press
5 citations, 0.07%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
5 citations, 0.07%
The Royal Society
5 citations, 0.07%
PeerJ
5 citations, 0.07%
IOS Press
4 citations, 0.06%
American Physiological Society
4 citations, 0.06%
American Society of Nephrology
4 citations, 0.06%
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
4 citations, 0.06%
Annual Reviews
4 citations, 0.06%
Mark Allen Group
4 citations, 0.06%
CSIRO Publishing
4 citations, 0.06%
OAE Publishing Inc.
4 citations, 0.06%
Scientific Scholar
4 citations, 0.06%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
3 citations, 0.04%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
3 citations, 0.04%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
3 citations, 0.04%
Deutscher Arzte-Verlag GmbH
3 citations, 0.04%
Eco-Vector LLC
3 citations, 0.04%
American Physical Society (APS)
3 citations, 0.04%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
3 citations, 0.04%
Scientific Research Publishing
3 citations, 0.04%
Human Kinetics
3 citations, 0.04%
World Scientific
2 citations, 0.03%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2 citations, 0.03%
Optica Publishing Group
2 citations, 0.03%
American Academy of Pediatrics
2 citations, 0.03%
Pensoft Publishers
2 citations, 0.03%
American Roentgen Ray Society
2 citations, 0.03%
British Institute of Radiology
2 citations, 0.03%
The Japanese Circulation Society
2 citations, 0.03%
SciELO
2 citations, 0.03%
Infra-M Academic Publishing House
2 citations, 0.03%
Media Sphere Publishing House
2 citations, 0.03%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
2 citations, 0.03%
AOSIS
2 citations, 0.03%
South Florida Publishing LLC
2 citations, 0.03%
European Molecular Biology Organization
2 citations, 0.03%
XMLink
2 citations, 0.03%
EDP Sciences
1 citation, 0.01%
Pleiades Publishing
1 citation, 0.01%
Duke University Press
1 citation, 0.01%
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
1 citation, 0.01%
AIP Publishing
1 citation, 0.01%
1 citation, 0.01%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
1 citation, 0.01%
Portland Press
1 citation, 0.01%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
1 citation, 0.01%
South African Assn. For The Advancement Of Science
1 citation, 0.01%
American Speech Language Hearing Association
1 citation, 0.01%
Spandidos Publications
1 citation, 0.01%
ifmbe proceedings
1 citation, 0.01%
Edizioni Minerva Medica
1 citation, 0.01%
AME Publishing Company
1 citation, 0.01%
Chinese Academy of Sciences
1 citation, 0.01%
Hrvatsko Farmaceutsko Drustvo/Croatian Pharmaceutical Society
1 citation, 0.01%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
1 citation, 0.01%
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine
1 citation, 0.01%
European Respiratory Society (ERS)
1 citation, 0.01%
American Veterinary Medical Association
1 citation, 0.01%
Royal College of Psychiatrists
1 citation, 0.01%
Siberian State Medical University
1 citation, 0.01%
American Public Health Association
1 citation, 0.01%
Korean Orthopaedic Association
1 citation, 0.01%
Joint Commission Resources Inc.
1 citation, 0.01%
eLife Sciences Publications
1 citation, 0.01%
Association of Military Surgeons of the US
1 citation, 0.01%
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Harvard University
33 publications, 4.62%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
30 publications, 4.2%
University College London
24 publications, 3.36%
University of Toronto
24 publications, 3.36%
Emory University
16 publications, 2.24%
Imperial College London
15 publications, 2.1%
Stanford University
13 publications, 1.82%
University of California, San Francisco
13 publications, 1.82%
New York University
11 publications, 1.54%
University of British Columbia
11 publications, 1.54%
University of Ottawa
11 publications, 1.54%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
11 publications, 1.54%
Yale University
10 publications, 1.4%
Duke University
10 publications, 1.4%
Massachusetts General Hospital
10 publications, 1.4%
University of Michigan
10 publications, 1.4%
University of Oxford
9 publications, 1.26%
University of Cambridge
9 publications, 1.26%
Johns Hopkins University
9 publications, 1.26%
Brown University
9 publications, 1.26%
University of Alberta
9 publications, 1.26%
King's College London
8 publications, 1.12%
University of Washington
8 publications, 1.12%
University of Pennsylvania
8 publications, 1.12%
ETH Zurich
7 publications, 0.98%
University of Zurich
7 publications, 0.98%
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
7 publications, 0.98%
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
7 publications, 0.98%
University of California, Berkeley
7 publications, 0.98%
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
7 publications, 0.98%
McMaster University
7 publications, 0.98%
University of Exeter
7 publications, 0.98%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
7 publications, 0.98%
French Institute of Health and Medical Research
7 publications, 0.98%
University of New South Wales
6 publications, 0.84%
University of Copenhagen
6 publications, 0.84%
Cornell University
6 publications, 0.84%
University of the Witwatersrand
6 publications, 0.84%
Makerere University
6 publications, 0.84%
Northwestern University
6 publications, 0.84%
University of California, Los Angeles
6 publications, 0.84%
University of Florida
6 publications, 0.84%
Kenya Medical Research Institute
6 publications, 0.84%
University of Pittsburgh
6 publications, 0.84%
Technical University of Munich
5 publications, 0.7%
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
5 publications, 0.7%
Technische Universität Dresden
5 publications, 0.7%
Maastricht University
5 publications, 0.7%
University of Edinburgh
5 publications, 0.7%
University of Glasgow
5 publications, 0.7%
Pennsylvania State University
5 publications, 0.7%
University of California, Irvine
5 publications, 0.7%
Northeastern University
5 publications, 0.7%
University of the Philippines Manila
5 publications, 0.7%
Amsterdam University Medical Center
5 publications, 0.7%
University of Amsterdam
5 publications, 0.7%
Northumbria University
5 publications, 0.7%
Western University
5 publications, 0.7%
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
5 publications, 0.7%
Wollo University
5 publications, 0.7%
University of Tübingen
4 publications, 0.56%
Humboldt University of Berlin
4 publications, 0.56%
University Hospital of Bern
4 publications, 0.56%
Geneva University Hospitals
4 publications, 0.56%
Sorbonne University
4 publications, 0.56%
University of Melbourne
4 publications, 0.56%
Monash University
4 publications, 0.56%
New York University Langone Health
4 publications, 0.56%
University of California, San Diego
4 publications, 0.56%
Newcastle University
4 publications, 0.56%
Trinity College Dublin
4 publications, 0.56%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
4 publications, 0.56%
University Medical Center Utrecht
4 publications, 0.56%
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
4 publications, 0.56%
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
4 publications, 0.56%
Mayo Clinic
4 publications, 0.56%
University of Manitoba
4 publications, 0.56%
University of Rochester Medical Center
4 publications, 0.56%
Cleveland Clinic
4 publications, 0.56%
Indiana University School of Medicine
4 publications, 0.56%
Indiana University Bloomington
4 publications, 0.56%
Nationwide Children's Hospital
4 publications, 0.56%
Texas A&M University
4 publications, 0.56%
University of Nairobi
4 publications, 0.56%
University of Gondar
4 publications, 0.56%
University of Plymouth
4 publications, 0.56%
University of São Paulo
4 publications, 0.56%
University of Galway
4 publications, 0.56%
University of Montpellier
4 publications, 0.56%
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
4 publications, 0.56%
University of Virginia
4 publications, 0.56%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4 publications, 0.56%
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
3 publications, 0.42%
Aga Khan University
3 publications, 0.42%
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
3 publications, 0.42%
Karolinska Institute
3 publications, 0.42%
Free University of Berlin
3 publications, 0.42%
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
3 publications, 0.42%
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
3 publications, 0.42%
University of Turku
3 publications, 0.42%
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USA, 190, 26.61%
USA
190 publications, 26.61%
United Kingdom, 85, 11.9%
United Kingdom
85 publications, 11.9%
Canada, 47, 6.58%
Canada
47 publications, 6.58%
Germany, 31, 4.34%
Germany
31 publications, 4.34%
Switzerland, 27, 3.78%
Switzerland
27 publications, 3.78%
Netherlands, 20, 2.8%
Netherlands
20 publications, 2.8%
France, 17, 2.38%
France
17 publications, 2.38%
Australia, 17, 2.38%
Australia
17 publications, 2.38%
India, 13, 1.82%
India
13 publications, 1.82%
Denmark, 12, 1.68%
Denmark
12 publications, 1.68%
South Africa, 12, 1.68%
South Africa
12 publications, 1.68%
Japan, 12, 1.68%
Japan
12 publications, 1.68%
Kenya, 11, 1.54%
Kenya
11 publications, 1.54%
Uganda, 11, 1.54%
Uganda
11 publications, 1.54%
Singapore, 10, 1.4%
Singapore
10 publications, 1.4%
Ireland, 9, 1.26%
Ireland
9 publications, 1.26%
Italy, 9, 1.26%
Italy
9 publications, 1.26%
Spain, 8, 1.12%
Spain
8 publications, 1.12%
Tanzania, 8, 1.12%
Tanzania
8 publications, 1.12%
Finland, 8, 1.12%
Finland
8 publications, 1.12%
Sweden, 8, 1.12%
Sweden
8 publications, 1.12%
China, 7, 0.98%
China
7 publications, 0.98%
Israel, 6, 0.84%
Israel
6 publications, 0.84%
Norway, 6, 0.84%
Norway
6 publications, 0.84%
Philippines, 6, 0.84%
Philippines
6 publications, 0.84%
Ethiopia, 6, 0.84%
Ethiopia
6 publications, 0.84%
Portugal, 5, 0.7%
Portugal
5 publications, 0.7%
Austria, 5, 0.7%
Austria
5 publications, 0.7%
Belgium, 5, 0.7%
Belgium
5 publications, 0.7%
Brazil, 5, 0.7%
Brazil
5 publications, 0.7%
Estonia, 3, 0.42%
Estonia
3 publications, 0.42%
Argentina, 3, 0.42%
Argentina
3 publications, 0.42%
Ghana, 3, 0.42%
Ghana
3 publications, 0.42%
UAE, 3, 0.42%
UAE
3 publications, 0.42%
Pakistan, 3, 0.42%
Pakistan
3 publications, 0.42%
Poland, 3, 0.42%
Poland
3 publications, 0.42%
Bangladesh, 2, 0.28%
Bangladesh
2 publications, 0.28%
Greece, 2, 0.28%
Greece
2 publications, 0.28%
Zimbabwe, 2, 0.28%
Zimbabwe
2 publications, 0.28%
Jordan, 2, 0.28%
Jordan
2 publications, 0.28%
Cameroon, 2, 0.28%
Cameroon
2 publications, 0.28%
Colombia, 2, 0.28%
Colombia
2 publications, 0.28%
Lebanon, 2, 0.28%
Lebanon
2 publications, 0.28%
Malta, 2, 0.28%
Malta
2 publications, 0.28%
Mexico, 2, 0.28%
Mexico
2 publications, 0.28%
Nigeria, 2, 0.28%
Nigeria
2 publications, 0.28%
New Zealand, 2, 0.28%
New Zealand
2 publications, 0.28%
Puerto Rico, 2, 0.28%
Puerto Rico
2 publications, 0.28%
Republic of Korea, 2, 0.28%
Republic of Korea
2 publications, 0.28%
Rwanda, 2, 0.28%
Rwanda
2 publications, 0.28%
Saudi Arabia, 2, 0.28%
Saudi Arabia
2 publications, 0.28%
Senegal, 2, 0.28%
Senegal
2 publications, 0.28%
Slovenia, 2, 0.28%
Slovenia
2 publications, 0.28%
Tunisia, 2, 0.28%
Tunisia
2 publications, 0.28%
Turkey, 2, 0.28%
Turkey
2 publications, 0.28%
Russia, 1, 0.14%
Russia
1 publication, 0.14%
Ukraine, 1, 0.14%
Ukraine
1 publication, 0.14%
Algeria, 1, 0.14%
Algeria
1 publication, 0.14%
Barbados, 1, 0.14%
Barbados
1 publication, 0.14%
Benin, 1, 0.14%
Benin
1 publication, 0.14%
Burkina Faso, 1, 0.14%
Burkina Faso
1 publication, 0.14%
Burundi, 1, 0.14%
Burundi
1 publication, 0.14%
Hungary, 1, 0.14%
Hungary
1 publication, 0.14%
Vietnam, 1, 0.14%
Vietnam
1 publication, 0.14%
Gambia, 1, 0.14%
Gambia
1 publication, 0.14%
Guinea, 1, 0.14%
Guinea
1 publication, 0.14%
Guinea-Bissau, 1, 0.14%
Guinea-Bissau
1 publication, 0.14%
Indonesia, 1, 0.14%
Indonesia
1 publication, 0.14%
Iceland, 1, 0.14%
Iceland
1 publication, 0.14%
Kuwait, 1, 0.14%
Kuwait
1 publication, 0.14%
Lesotho, 1, 0.14%
Lesotho
1 publication, 0.14%
Lithuania, 1, 0.14%
Lithuania
1 publication, 0.14%
Luxembourg, 1, 0.14%
Luxembourg
1 publication, 0.14%
Malawi, 1, 0.14%
Malawi
1 publication, 0.14%
Malaysia, 1, 0.14%
Malaysia
1 publication, 0.14%
Mali, 1, 0.14%
Mali
1 publication, 0.14%
Mozambique, 1, 0.14%
Mozambique
1 publication, 0.14%
Moldova, 1, 0.14%
Moldova
1 publication, 0.14%
Namibia, 1, 0.14%
Namibia
1 publication, 0.14%
Nepal, 1, 0.14%
Nepal
1 publication, 0.14%
Niger, 1, 0.14%
Niger
1 publication, 0.14%
Nicaragua, 1, 0.14%
Nicaragua
1 publication, 0.14%
Peru, 1, 0.14%
Peru
1 publication, 0.14%
Thailand, 1, 0.14%
Thailand
1 publication, 0.14%
Togo, 1, 0.14%
Togo
1 publication, 0.14%
Trinidad and Tobago, 1, 0.14%
Trinidad and Tobago
1 publication, 0.14%
Tuvalu, 1, 0.14%
Tuvalu
1 publication, 0.14%
Croatia, 1, 0.14%
Croatia
1 publication, 0.14%
Chad, 1, 0.14%
Chad
1 publication, 0.14%
Czech Republic, 1, 0.14%
Czech Republic
1 publication, 0.14%
Chile, 1, 0.14%
Chile
1 publication, 0.14%
Equatorial Guinea, 1, 0.14%
Equatorial Guinea
1 publication, 0.14%
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