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| Discipline | Genetics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Aimée Dudley, Anne Goriely |
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| History | 2005–present |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
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| License | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| 4.0 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | PLoS Genet. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | PGLEB5 |
| ISSN | 1553-7390 (print) 1553-7404 (web) |
| LCCN | 2004216451 |
| OCLC no. | 57175564 |
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PLOS Genetics is apeer-reviewedopen accessscientific journal established in 2005 and published by thePublic Library of Science.[1] The foundingeditor-in-chief was Wayne N. Frankel (Columbia University Medical Center). The current editors-in-chief are Aimée Dudley (Pacific Northwest Research Institute) and Anne Goriely (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine). The journal covers research on all aspects ofgenetics andgenomics.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020impact factor of 5.917.[10]
Since its tenth year of publication, the journal annually awards the $5000PLOS Genetics Research Prize for the best paper published in the previous year based on nominations from members of the genetics community.[11][12]
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