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PLOS Medicine — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of PLOS Medicine is 9.9 (Q1 in Medicine, General & Internal; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 9.9 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Medicine, General & Internal
- Quartile
- Q1 in Medicine, General & Internal
- Publisher
- PLOS
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- bioxbio.com
Position within the field
Ranked 11 of the 40 journals in Medicine, General & Internal on this site (top 50%).
Medicine, General & Internal journals with a similar Impact Factor
- JAMA Network Open IF 11.7
- QJM IF 8.9
- BMC Medicine IF 8.7
- CMAJ IF 8.6
- European Journal of Internal Medicine IF 8.1
- Journal of Internal Medicine IF 7.6
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of PLOS Medicine (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 9.9. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Medicine, General & Internal.