PLoS Medicine

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PLoS Medicine  
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Abbreviated title (ISO 4) PLoS Med.
Discipline Medicine
Language English
Publication details
Publisher Public Library of Science
Publication history 2004-present
Frequency Monthly
Open access Yes
License Creative Commons Attribution License
Impact factor
(2011)		 16.269
Indexing
ISSN 1549-1277 (print)
1549-1676 (web)
LCCN 2004212194
OCLC number 54674092
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PLoS Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical 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 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 costs.

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