2026 Impact Factor
4.9
Released June 2026 · Based on 2025 citation data
No change vs last year
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PLOS Pathogens's newest impact factor is 4.9, released June 17, 2026 and based on 2025 citation data. This verified record also shows JCR quartile, ISSN, publisher, and verification links for exact-title searches.
Metric year 2025
Released
Metric year 2024
| Category | Indexes | Quartile |
|---|---|---|
| MICROBIOLOGY | SCIE | Q2 |
| PARASITOLOGY | SCIE | Q1 |
| VIROLOGY | SCIE | Q1 |
PLOS Pathogens's newest impact factor is 4.9, released June 17, 2026 and based on 2025 citation data.
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Ranked #909 in Medicine by impact factor and #875 among Q1 Medicine journals. This context helps compare PLOS Pathogens against journals publishing in the same field.
Published 2,990 papers across the last 5 recorded years.
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