PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, USA
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY is an academic journal published by PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE (USA). Identifiers: ISSN 1553-734X, eISSN 1553-7358. Indexed in SCIE, SCOPUS. Metrics: JIF 3.6, CiteScore 7.2, SJR 1.503, SNIP 1.14. JIF percentile 82.8% in its primary Web of Science category. Subject areas: BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS, MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY.
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CiteScore
7.20
Scopus citation metric
SJR
1.503
SCImago rank
SNIP
1.14
Source normalized impact
Percentage rank
82.8%
JIF percentile rank
Journal profile
- ISSN
- 1553-734X
- eISSN
- 1553-7358
- Abbreviation
- PLoS Comput. Biol.
- Publisher
- PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
- Country
- USA
Web of Science categories
Scopus ASJC categories
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Papers in this journal
Recent papers
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