Timeline for How does PLOS ONE maintain its impact factor?
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| Jul 5, 2021 at 0:09 | history | unprotected | Buzz | ||
| Sep 24, 2018 at 19:11 | history | protected | Alexandros | ||
| Sep 23, 2018 at 13:21 | answer | added | Manolis Antonoyiannakis | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Sep 2, 2016 at 12:26 | vote | accept | StrongBad | ||
| Mar 14, 2016 at 6:55 | answer | added | Jeromy Anglim | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Mar 13, 2016 at 4:01 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 5, 2016 at 11:25 | comment | added | András Salamon | Slightly more meaningfully (being based on a credible and public scoring system), the Eigenfactor of PLOS ONE is now 1.533 compared to Nature's 1.499, so overall it can be said to be more impactful, but the Article Impact is massively lower. This seems to indicate it publishes an enormous number of papers of which most only receive a few citations, whereas Nature publishes fewer papers which almost all are highly cited. | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 16:51 | answer | added | Wetlab Walter | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Sep 9, 2015 at 20:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/641714898867761153 | ||
| Sep 9, 2015 at 19:26 | answer | added | jakebeal | timeline score: 21 | |
| Sep 9, 2015 at 18:44 | answer | added | Fomite | timeline score: 32 | |
| Sep 9, 2015 at 18:26 | comment | added | xebtl | While I am comparing PLOS ONE to Nature, I should note that the size of the journal is also critical. The journals with very high impact factors achieve them largely by publishing only those papers which are likely to get a large number of citations. There is an interesting editorial in PRL from a few years ago about this effect. | |
| Sep 9, 2015 at 18:15 | comment | added | xebtl | I do not know about PLOS ONE specifically, but I guess part of the answer will be that impact factor is quite field-dependent. For that matter, other interdisciplinary journals manage to achieve much higher impact factors. | |
| Sep 9, 2015 at 18:03 | history | asked | StrongBad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |