PLoS Medicine Impact Factor, Indexing, Ranking 2024

PLOS Medicine publishes articles relevant to clinicians, policymakers, and researchers across a range of settings that address the major biological, environmental, social, and political determinants of health. The editors make decisions on submissions based upon their potential to directly and substantially inform clinical practice or health policy, and their relevance to our international audience.Articles given highest priority for publication are those that address conditions or risk factors that cause the greatest losses in years of healthy life and quality of life worldwide.PLOS Medicine also seeks to publish articles in the area of translational medicine that provide substantial, novel mechanistic insights into disease processes, with potential implications for clinical care. Additionally PLOS Medicine considers articles on topics relating to the integrity and ethics of the research enterprise; the practice of medicine; and the application of research to practice to fall within its scope.

PLOS Medicine 期刊致力于发布与临床医生、政策制定者和研究人员相关的文章，这些文章涵盖多种环境下的主要生物、环境、社会和政治健康决定因素。编者们基于投稿文章直接且实质性地影响临床实践或健康政策的能力以及其对国际受众的相关性作出出版决策。对于出版优先级最高的文章，是指那些造成全球健康寿命和生活质量损失最大的疾病或风险因素的研究。此外，PLOS Medicine 还寻求发表在转化医学领域内提供对疾病过程有实质性、创新性机制见解的文章，这些见解可能对临床护理产生潜在影响。此外，该期刊还考虑将关于研究企业完整性及伦理、医学实践以及研究应用于实践等主题的文章纳入其出版范围。