PLOS Biology

PLOS· ISSN-L 1544-9173

Snapshot: board collected March 31, 2026, released in Open Editors Plus 6.2.0 (October 30, 2026). Boards change; the publisher's page is the current list.

272
Editors
273
Positions
31
Countries
43.1%
Women (inferred)
48.1
Mean editor h-index

Positions by role

Senior editors2
Associate editors266
Section editors4
Editors (generic title)1

Positions, not people: one editor can hold two titles on a board. Titles are mapped to roles as described in the methodology.

Journal

ISSN (print)
1544-9173
E-ISSN
1545-7885
Field
Neuroscience
Open access (DOAJ)
Yes
Scopus
Yes
Web of Science
Yes
PubMed
Yes
NPI level
2
Citedness quartile
Q1

ISSN (print) and E-ISSN as typed by the NLM Catalog. The citedness quartile is computed within the field from OpenAlex citations, not taken from Clarivate or Scopus. See the notes on the journal statistics page.

Women (inferred): share of the 246 editors whose gender could be inferred from their first name; not self-reported. Each editor is counted once per board.