PLOS Pathogens
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.
515
Editors
517
Positions
36
Countries
29.6%
Women (inferred)
42.8
Mean editor h-index
Positions by role
| Editors-in-chief | 2 |
| Associate editors | 453 |
| Section editors | 62 |
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)
- 1553-7366
- E-ISSN
- 1553-7374
- Field
- Medicine
- 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 453 editors whose gender could be inferred from their first name; not self-reported. Each editor is counted once per board.