PLoS Medicine
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| PLoS Medicine | |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Medicine |
| Language | English |
| Abbreviated title | PLoS Med. |
| Publisher (country) | Public Library of Science (USA) |
| Publication history | Published since October 19, 2004 |
| Website | http://www.plosmedicine.org/ |
PLoS Medicine is a scientific journal covering the full spectrum of the medical sciences it began operation on October 19, 2004. It was the second journal of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) a non-profit organization which releases scientific content under open access terms. All content in PLoS Medicine is published under the Creative Commons "by-attribution" license [1]. To fund the journal, the publication's business model requires that, in most cases, authors will pay publication costs.
The 2005 Impact Factor of PLoS Medicine is 8.4.
