PLOS Medicine
| Discipline | Medicine |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Raffaella Bosurgi |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2004–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Yes | |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| 10.5 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | PLOS Med. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1549-1277 (print) 1549-1676 (web) |
| LCCN | 2004212194 |
| OCLC no. | 54674092 |
| Links | |
PLOS Medicine (formerly styled PLoS Medicine) is a peer-reviewed weekly medical journal covering the full spectrum of the medical sciences. It began operation on October 19, 2004, as the second journal of the Public Library of Science (PLOS), a non-profit open access publisher. All content in PLOS Medicine is published under the Creative Commons "by-attribution" license. To fund the journal, the publication's business model requires in most cases that authors pay publication fees. The journal was published online and in a printed format until 2005 and is now only published online. The journal's acting chief editor is Clare Stone, who replaced the previous chief editor, Larry Peiperl, in 2018.