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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
867
Citations
9 113
h-index
36
Publications
866
Citations
8 843
Top-3 citing journals
Cureus
Cureus (182 citations)
PLOS Digital Health
PLOS Digital Health (158 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Harvard University
Harvard University (38 publications)
University of Toronto
University of Toronto (34 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (190 publications)
United Kingdom (85 publications)
Canada (47 publications)

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Citing journals

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Journal of Medical Internet Research
199 citations, 2.18%
Cureus
182 citations, 2%
PLOS Digital Health
158 citations, 1.73%
Scientific Reports
130 citations, 1.43%
JMIR Medical Education
110 citations, 1.21%
npj Digital Medicine
107 citations, 1.17%
PLoS ONE
95 citations, 1.04%
JMIR Formative Research
76 citations, 0.83%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
65 citations, 0.71%
Healthcare
58 citations, 0.64%
Digital Health
58 citations, 0.64%
BMC Medical Education
54 citations, 0.59%
IEEE Access
54 citations, 0.59%
Frontiers in Digital Health
54 citations, 0.59%
Journal of Clinical Medicine
51 citations, 0.56%
Frontiers in Public Health
48 citations, 0.53%
Diagnostics
44 citations, 0.48%
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
43 citations, 0.47%
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
39 citations, 0.43%
Frontiers in Medicine
36 citations, 0.4%
BMJ Open
33 citations, 0.36%
Sensors
33 citations, 0.36%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
32 citations, 0.35%
International Journal of Medical Informatics
29 citations, 0.32%
JAMA network open
29 citations, 0.32%
Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics
29 citations, 0.32%
Medical Teacher
27 citations, 0.3%
The Lancet Digital Health
27 citations, 0.3%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
25 citations, 0.27%
JMIR Human Factors
23 citations, 0.25%
Journal of Medical Systems
20 citations, 0.22%
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
20 citations, 0.22%
BMC Public Health
19 citations, 0.21%
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
18 citations, 0.2%
JMIR Medical Informatics
18 citations, 0.2%
JMIR Research Protocols
18 citations, 0.2%
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
17 citations, 0.19%
Medical Science Educator
17 citations, 0.19%
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
17 citations, 0.19%
Nature Medicine
17 citations, 0.19%
Bioengineering
17 citations, 0.19%
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
16 citations, 0.18%
AI and Ethics
16 citations, 0.18%
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
15 citations, 0.16%
Mayo Clinic Proceedings Digital Health
15 citations, 0.16%
Health Promotion International
14 citations, 0.15%
Internet Interventions
14 citations, 0.15%
Communications in Computer and Information Science
14 citations, 0.15%
BMC Health Services Research
14 citations, 0.15%
PLOS Global Public Health
14 citations, 0.15%
BMC Digital Health
13 citations, 0.14%
Nature Communications
12 citations, 0.13%
BMJ Health and Care Informatics
12 citations, 0.13%
Radiology
12 citations, 0.13%
Heliyon
12 citations, 0.13%
Epidemics
11 citations, 0.12%
Computers in Biology and Medicine
11 citations, 0.12%
JMIR Mental Health
11 citations, 0.12%
Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence
11 citations, 0.12%
Scientific data
10 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Personalized Medicine
10 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
10 citations, 0.11%
Electronics (Switzerland)
10 citations, 0.11%
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
10 citations, 0.11%
Cancers
10 citations, 0.11%
Communications Medicine
10 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Surgical Education
9 citations, 0.1%
Artificial Intelligence Review
9 citations, 0.1%
Information (Switzerland)
9 citations, 0.1%
Frontiers in Psychiatry
9 citations, 0.1%
IEEE Sensors Journal
9 citations, 0.1%
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
9 citations, 0.1%
F1000Research
9 citations, 0.1%
JAMIA Open
9 citations, 0.1%
JMIR Aging
9 citations, 0.1%
JMIR AI
9 citations, 0.1%
EClinicalMedicine
8 citations, 0.09%
American Surgeon
8 citations, 0.09%
Children
8 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science
8 citations, 0.09%
Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science
8 citations, 0.09%
Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration
8 citations, 0.09%
International Dental Journal
7 citations, 0.08%
Sustainability
7 citations, 0.08%
BMC Nursing
7 citations, 0.08%
BMJ
7 citations, 0.08%
Patterns
7 citations, 0.08%
BMC Primary Care
7 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
6 citations, 0.07%
Brain Sciences
6 citations, 0.07%
BMC Psychiatry
6 citations, 0.07%
Frontiers in Psychology
6 citations, 0.07%
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
6 citations, 0.07%
Neural Computing and Applications
6 citations, 0.07%
Health Policy and Technology
6 citations, 0.07%
Expert Systems with Applications
6 citations, 0.07%
International Journal for Equity in Health
6 citations, 0.07%
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
6 citations, 0.07%
Malaria Journal
6 citations, 0.07%
International Journal of Retina and Vitreous
6 citations, 0.07%
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Springer Nature
1971 citations, 21.63%
Elsevier
1448 citations, 15.89%
JMIR Publications
661 citations, 7.25%
MDPI
630 citations, 6.91%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
462 citations, 5.07%
Wiley
430 citations, 4.72%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
409 citations, 4.49%
Frontiers Media S.A.
315 citations, 3.46%
Taylor & Francis
308 citations, 3.38%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
295 citations, 3.24%
SAGE
241 citations, 2.64%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
241 citations, 2.64%
Oxford University Press
185 citations, 2.03%
IGI Global
121 citations, 1.33%
BMJ
115 citations, 1.26%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
114 citations, 1.25%
American Medical Association (AMA)
63 citations, 0.69%
Emerald
46 citations, 0.5%
Research Square Platform LLC
36 citations, 0.4%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
32 citations, 0.35%
Mary Ann Liebert
30 citations, 0.33%
Walter de Gruyter
26 citations, 0.29%
Cambridge University Press
23 citations, 0.25%
Massachusetts Medical Society
22 citations, 0.24%
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
22 citations, 0.24%
Baishideng Publishing Group
22 citations, 0.24%
IOP Publishing
19 citations, 0.21%
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
18 citations, 0.2%
AME Publishing Company
17 citations, 0.19%
F1000 Research
16 citations, 0.18%
IntechOpen
14 citations, 0.15%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
12 citations, 0.13%
PeerJ
10 citations, 0.11%
Annual Reviews
10 citations, 0.11%
S. Karger AG
9 citations, 0.1%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
8 citations, 0.09%
SLACK
8 citations, 0.09%
CSIRO Publishing
7 citations, 0.08%
IMR Press
6 citations, 0.07%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
6 citations, 0.07%
The Royal Society
6 citations, 0.07%
Mark Allen Group
6 citations, 0.07%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
6 citations, 0.07%
OAE Publishing Inc.
6 citations, 0.07%
Scientific Scholar
6 citations, 0.07%
Apex Publishing
6 citations, 0.07%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
5 citations, 0.05%
AIP Publishing
5 citations, 0.05%
American Academy of Pediatrics
5 citations, 0.05%
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
5 citations, 0.05%
American Physiological Society
4 citations, 0.04%
Human Kinetics
4 citations, 0.04%
Korean Society of Women Health Nursing
4 citations, 0.04%
World Scientific
3 citations, 0.03%
IOS Press
3 citations, 0.03%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
3 citations, 0.03%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
3 citations, 0.03%
Deutscher Arzte-Verlag GmbH
3 citations, 0.03%
Pensoft Publishers
3 citations, 0.03%
Eco-Vector LLC
3 citations, 0.03%
Edizioni Minerva Medica
3 citations, 0.03%
American Physical Society (APS)
3 citations, 0.03%
American Roentgen Ray Society
3 citations, 0.03%
The Japanese Circulation Society
3 citations, 0.03%
SciELO
3 citations, 0.03%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
3 citations, 0.03%
Scientific Research Publishing
3 citations, 0.03%
AOSIS
3 citations, 0.03%
EDP Sciences
2 citations, 0.02%
Optica Publishing Group
2 citations, 0.02%
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine
2 citations, 0.02%
Royal College of Psychiatrists
2 citations, 0.02%
American Public Health Association
2 citations, 0.02%
British Institute of Radiology
2 citations, 0.02%
Russian Vrach, Publishing House Ltd.
2 citations, 0.02%
Infra-M Academic Publishing House
2 citations, 0.02%
PAGEPress Publications
2 citations, 0.02%
Media Sphere Publishing House
2 citations, 0.02%
Brieflands
2 citations, 0.02%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
2 citations, 0.02%
American Psychiatric Association Publishing
2 citations, 0.02%
South Florida Publishing LLC
2 citations, 0.02%
European Molecular Biology Organization
2 citations, 0.02%
XMLink
2 citations, 0.02%
Pleiades Publishing
1 citation, 0.01%
Duke University Press
1 citation, 0.01%
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
1 citation, 0.01%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1 citation, 0.01%
1 citation, 0.01%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
1 citation, 0.01%
Korean Society of Industrial Engineering Chemistry
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%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
1 citation, 0.01%
The Endocrine Society
1 citation, 0.01%
American Thoracic Society
1 citation, 0.01%
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Harvard University
38 publications, 4.38%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
35 publications, 4.04%
University of Toronto
34 publications, 3.92%
University College London
30 publications, 3.46%
Emory University
22 publications, 2.54%
Imperial College London
20 publications, 2.31%
Stanford University
20 publications, 2.31%
University of California, San Francisco
17 publications, 1.96%
New York University
16 publications, 1.85%
University of Alberta
15 publications, 1.73%
University of British Columbia
14 publications, 1.61%
University of Cambridge
13 publications, 1.5%
Yale University
13 publications, 1.5%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
13 publications, 1.5%
Duke University
12 publications, 1.38%
University of Washington
12 publications, 1.38%
Massachusetts General Hospital
12 publications, 1.38%
University of Michigan
12 publications, 1.38%
Brown University
12 publications, 1.38%
University of Ottawa
12 publications, 1.38%
University of Oxford
11 publications, 1.27%
King's College London
11 publications, 1.27%
Johns Hopkins University
10 publications, 1.15%
University of Pennsylvania
10 publications, 1.15%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10 publications, 1.15%
Maastricht University
9 publications, 1.04%
McMaster University
9 publications, 1.04%
University of Pittsburgh
9 publications, 1.04%
ETH Zurich
8 publications, 0.92%
University of Zurich
8 publications, 0.92%
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
8 publications, 0.92%
Pennsylvania State University
8 publications, 0.92%
Makerere University
8 publications, 0.92%
University of California, Los Angeles
8 publications, 0.92%
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
8 publications, 0.92%
Western University
8 publications, 0.92%
University of Exeter
8 publications, 0.92%
University of Florida
8 publications, 0.92%
Kenya Medical Research Institute
8 publications, 0.92%
French Institute of Health and Medical Research
8 publications, 0.92%
Technical University of Munich
7 publications, 0.81%
Technische Universität Dresden
7 publications, 0.81%
University of Copenhagen
7 publications, 0.81%
Cornell University
7 publications, 0.81%
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
7 publications, 0.81%
University of California, Berkeley
7 publications, 0.81%
University of California, San Diego
7 publications, 0.81%
Mayo Clinic
7 publications, 0.81%
University of Virginia
7 publications, 0.81%
University of Tübingen
6 publications, 0.69%
University of New South Wales
6 publications, 0.69%
University of Nottingham
6 publications, 0.69%
University of Glasgow
6 publications, 0.69%
University of the Witwatersrand
6 publications, 0.69%
Northwestern University
6 publications, 0.69%
Northeastern University
6 publications, 0.69%
University of the Philippines Manila
6 publications, 0.69%
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
6 publications, 0.69%
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
6 publications, 0.69%
Texas A&M University
6 publications, 0.69%
Wollo University
6 publications, 0.69%
University of Plymouth
6 publications, 0.69%
University of São Paulo
6 publications, 0.69%
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
5 publications, 0.58%
Geneva University Hospitals
5 publications, 0.58%
University of Edinburgh
5 publications, 0.58%
University of Melbourne
5 publications, 0.58%
University of Cape Town
5 publications, 0.58%
Ohio State University
5 publications, 0.58%
University of California, Irvine
5 publications, 0.58%
Trinity College Dublin
5 publications, 0.58%
McGill University
5 publications, 0.58%
Amsterdam University Medical Center
5 publications, 0.58%
University of Amsterdam
5 publications, 0.58%
Northumbria University
5 publications, 0.58%
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
5 publications, 0.58%
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
5 publications, 0.58%
Indiana University School of Medicine
5 publications, 0.58%
University of Nairobi
5 publications, 0.58%
University of Gondar
5 publications, 0.58%
University of Montpellier
5 publications, 0.58%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
5 publications, 0.58%
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
4 publications, 0.46%
Karolinska Institute
4 publications, 0.46%
Humboldt University of Berlin
4 publications, 0.46%
University Hospital of Bern
4 publications, 0.46%
Lausanne University Hospital
4 publications, 0.46%
Aarhus University
4 publications, 0.46%
Technical University of Denmark
4 publications, 0.46%
Sorbonne University
4 publications, 0.46%
University of Southern California
4 publications, 0.46%
Monash University
4 publications, 0.46%
Stellenbosch University
4 publications, 0.46%
Columbia University
4 publications, 0.46%
Washington University in St. Louis
4 publications, 0.46%
New York University Langone Health
4 publications, 0.46%
University of Arizona
4 publications, 0.46%
Newcastle University
4 publications, 0.46%
McGill University Health Centre
4 publications, 0.46%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
4 publications, 0.46%
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USA, 190, 21.91%
USA
190 publications, 21.91%
United Kingdom, 85, 9.8%
United Kingdom
85 publications, 9.8%
Canada, 47, 5.42%
Canada
47 publications, 5.42%
Germany, 31, 3.58%
Germany
31 publications, 3.58%
Switzerland, 27, 3.11%
Switzerland
27 publications, 3.11%
Netherlands, 20, 2.31%
Netherlands
20 publications, 2.31%
France, 17, 1.96%
France
17 publications, 1.96%
Australia, 17, 1.96%
Australia
17 publications, 1.96%
India, 13, 1.5%
India
13 publications, 1.5%
Denmark, 12, 1.38%
Denmark
12 publications, 1.38%
South Africa, 12, 1.38%
South Africa
12 publications, 1.38%
Japan, 12, 1.38%
Japan
12 publications, 1.38%
Kenya, 11, 1.27%
Kenya
11 publications, 1.27%
Uganda, 11, 1.27%
Uganda
11 publications, 1.27%
Singapore, 10, 1.15%
Singapore
10 publications, 1.15%
Ireland, 9, 1.04%
Ireland
9 publications, 1.04%
Italy, 9, 1.04%
Italy
9 publications, 1.04%
Spain, 8, 0.92%
Spain
8 publications, 0.92%
Tanzania, 8, 0.92%
Tanzania
8 publications, 0.92%
Finland, 8, 0.92%
Finland
8 publications, 0.92%
Sweden, 8, 0.92%
Sweden
8 publications, 0.92%
China, 7, 0.81%
China
7 publications, 0.81%
Israel, 6, 0.69%
Israel
6 publications, 0.69%
Norway, 6, 0.69%
Norway
6 publications, 0.69%
Philippines, 6, 0.69%
Philippines
6 publications, 0.69%
Ethiopia, 6, 0.69%
Ethiopia
6 publications, 0.69%
Portugal, 5, 0.58%
Portugal
5 publications, 0.58%
Austria, 5, 0.58%
Austria
5 publications, 0.58%
Belgium, 5, 0.58%
Belgium
5 publications, 0.58%
Brazil, 5, 0.58%
Brazil
5 publications, 0.58%
Estonia, 3, 0.35%
Estonia
3 publications, 0.35%
Argentina, 3, 0.35%
Argentina
3 publications, 0.35%
Ghana, 3, 0.35%
Ghana
3 publications, 0.35%
UAE, 3, 0.35%
UAE
3 publications, 0.35%
Pakistan, 3, 0.35%
Pakistan
3 publications, 0.35%
Poland, 3, 0.35%
Poland
3 publications, 0.35%
Bangladesh, 2, 0.23%
Bangladesh
2 publications, 0.23%
Greece, 2, 0.23%
Greece
2 publications, 0.23%
Zimbabwe, 2, 0.23%
Zimbabwe
2 publications, 0.23%
Jordan, 2, 0.23%
Jordan
2 publications, 0.23%
Cameroon, 2, 0.23%
Cameroon
2 publications, 0.23%
Colombia, 2, 0.23%
Colombia
2 publications, 0.23%
Lebanon, 2, 0.23%
Lebanon
2 publications, 0.23%
Malta, 2, 0.23%
Malta
2 publications, 0.23%
Mexico, 2, 0.23%
Mexico
2 publications, 0.23%
Nigeria, 2, 0.23%
Nigeria
2 publications, 0.23%
New Zealand, 2, 0.23%
New Zealand
2 publications, 0.23%
Puerto Rico, 2, 0.23%
Puerto Rico
2 publications, 0.23%
Republic of Korea, 2, 0.23%
Republic of Korea
2 publications, 0.23%
Rwanda, 2, 0.23%
Rwanda
2 publications, 0.23%
Saudi Arabia, 2, 0.23%
Saudi Arabia
2 publications, 0.23%
Senegal, 2, 0.23%
Senegal
2 publications, 0.23%
Slovenia, 2, 0.23%
Slovenia
2 publications, 0.23%
Tunisia, 2, 0.23%
Tunisia
2 publications, 0.23%
Turkey, 2, 0.23%
Turkey
2 publications, 0.23%
Russia, 1, 0.12%
Russia
1 publication, 0.12%
Ukraine, 1, 0.12%
Ukraine
1 publication, 0.12%
Algeria, 1, 0.12%
Algeria
1 publication, 0.12%
Barbados, 1, 0.12%
Barbados
1 publication, 0.12%
Benin, 1, 0.12%
Benin
1 publication, 0.12%
Burkina Faso, 1, 0.12%
Burkina Faso
1 publication, 0.12%
Burundi, 1, 0.12%
Burundi
1 publication, 0.12%
Hungary, 1, 0.12%
Hungary
1 publication, 0.12%
Vietnam, 1, 0.12%
Vietnam
1 publication, 0.12%
Gambia, 1, 0.12%
Gambia
1 publication, 0.12%
Guinea, 1, 0.12%
Guinea
1 publication, 0.12%
Guinea-Bissau, 1, 0.12%
Guinea-Bissau
1 publication, 0.12%
Indonesia, 1, 0.12%
Indonesia
1 publication, 0.12%
Iceland, 1, 0.12%
Iceland
1 publication, 0.12%
Cambodia, 1, 0.12%
Cambodia
1 publication, 0.12%
Kuwait, 1, 0.12%
Kuwait
1 publication, 0.12%
Lesotho, 1, 0.12%
Lesotho
1 publication, 0.12%
Lithuania, 1, 0.12%
Lithuania
1 publication, 0.12%
Luxembourg, 1, 0.12%
Luxembourg
1 publication, 0.12%
Malawi, 1, 0.12%
Malawi
1 publication, 0.12%
Malaysia, 1, 0.12%
Malaysia
1 publication, 0.12%
Mali, 1, 0.12%
Mali
1 publication, 0.12%
Mozambique, 1, 0.12%
Mozambique
1 publication, 0.12%
Moldova, 1, 0.12%
Moldova
1 publication, 0.12%
Namibia, 1, 0.12%
Namibia
1 publication, 0.12%
Nepal, 1, 0.12%
Nepal
1 publication, 0.12%
Niger, 1, 0.12%
Niger
1 publication, 0.12%
Nicaragua, 1, 0.12%
Nicaragua
1 publication, 0.12%
Peru, 1, 0.12%
Peru
1 publication, 0.12%
Thailand, 1, 0.12%
Thailand
1 publication, 0.12%
Togo, 1, 0.12%
Togo
1 publication, 0.12%
Trinidad and Tobago, 1, 0.12%
Trinidad and Tobago
1 publication, 0.12%
Tuvalu, 1, 0.12%
Tuvalu
1 publication, 0.12%
Croatia, 1, 0.12%
Croatia
1 publication, 0.12%
Chad, 1, 0.12%
Chad
1 publication, 0.12%
Czech Republic, 1, 0.12%
Czech Republic
1 publication, 0.12%
Chile, 1, 0.12%
Chile
1 publication, 0.12%
Equatorial Guinea, 1, 0.12%
Equatorial Guinea
1 publication, 0.12%
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