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PLOS One: History & Science

PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006. The journal covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine. The Public Library of Science began in 2000 with an online petition initiative by Nobel Prize winner Harold…

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PLOS One topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Science as prominent areas in the source structure around PLOS One.

Related topics
66
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
71
Extracted relationships
131
Concept neighborhoods
26
Bridge connections
71

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Response to controversial publications · 22 topics
Overview · 19 topics
Abstracting and indexing · 12 topics
History · 12 topics
Reception · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Publisher
Public Library of Science
Discipline
Multidisciplinary
Edited by
Emily Chenette
Frequency
Upon acceptance
History
Since 2006
Impact factor
2.8 (2025)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Reception

Abstracting and indexing

Response to controversial publications

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How PLOS One connects Entity context

The extracted context around PLOS One shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, PLOS One → China, Chinese, Chinese Evangelical Church, Chinese National Basic Research, Chinese-language, Creator, CreatorGate, Despite, Higher Education, Iowa City, National Natural Science Foundation, Nature, On March, Others, PLOS One's, Program, Renzhi Han, Sarah Kaplan, Science, The Another extracted example is PLOS One → Angelo Brandelli Costa, Brown University School, Data, Diane Ehrensaft, Dr, Heber, However, In, Julia Serano, Lisa Littman, Littman, Littman's, On August, On March, PLOS One Editor-in-chief Joerg, Public Health, The. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

PLOS One

Top relations

related to CreatorGate · 24
PLOS One → China, Chinese, Chinese Evangelical Church, Chinese National Basic Research, Chinese-language, Creator, CreatorGate, Despite, Higher Education, Iowa City, National Natural Science Foundation, Nature, On March, Others, PLOS One's, Program, Renzhi Han, Sarah Kaplan, Science, The
related to Rapid-onset gender dysphoria controversy · 17
PLOS One → Angelo Brandelli Costa, Brown University School, Data, Diane Ehrensaft, Dr, Heber, However, In, Julia Serano, Lisa Littman, Littman, Littman's, On August, On March, PLOS One Editor-in-chief Joerg, Public Health, The
related to Development · 15
PLOS One → Betty Moore Foundation, December, HTML, In, In August, In September, It, July, Later, May, October, PDF, PLOS, The Gordon, XML
related to External links · 14
PLOS One → April, Archived, Kaden Hazzard, Media, Peer-reviewed, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Genetics, PLOS ONE Topic Pages, PLOS Wiki, Retrieved, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Alleged sexism in one peer review instance · 13
PLOS One → Australian National University, By May, Fiona Ingleby, Head's, Ingleby, Megan Head, On April, PhD-to-postdoc, PLOS, Shortly, Sussex, The, University
related to Output and turnaround · 12
PLOS One → At PLOS One, Both, By, By November, By September, Himmelstein's, January, June, Nature, PubMed, Scientific Reports, The
related to Business model · 9
PLOS One → April, As, Creative Commons, Depending, PLOS, Public Library, Science, The, This
related to Reception · 9
PLOS One → According, Association, In January, In September, Journal Citation Reports, Learned, Professional Society Publishers, Publishing Innovation Award, The
related to Publication concept · 4
PLOS One → Based, PLOS One's, The, Then
Discipline · 1
PLOS One → Multidisciplinary

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

plos one journal science article review published paper publication public impact articles scientific open factor journals data study academic papers

PLOS One relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 131 structured relationships around PLOS One. Examples in this analysis include PLOS One → Discipline → Multidisciplinary and PLOS One → Edited by → Emily Chenette. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PLOS OneDisciplineMultidisciplinary1.00infobox
PLOS OneEdited byEmily Chenette1.00infobox
PLOS OneFrequencyUpon acceptance1.00infobox
PLOS OneHistorySince 20061.00infobox
PLOS OneImpact factor2.8 (2025)1.00infobox
PLOS OneISO 4PLOS ONE1.00infobox
PLOS OneISSN1932-62031.00infobox
PLOS OneLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
PLOS OneLCCN20062145321.00infobox
PLOS OneLicenseCreative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International1.00infobox
PLOS OneOCLC no.2282346571.00infobox
PLOS OneOpen accessYes1.00infobox
PLOS OnePublisherPublic Library of Science1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around PLOS One bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Plos, Published and Article. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For PLOS One, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects PLOS One with Response to controversial publications. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
PLOS OneResponse to controversial publications · splits 49 ⟂ 23
PLOS OneOverview · splits 52 ⟂ 20
PLOS OneHistory · splits 59 ⟂ 13
PLOS OneAbstracting and indexing · splits 59 ⟂ 13

Map overview Semantic statistics

PLOS One

Nodes72
Edges71
Triples131
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027778
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around PLOS One to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Science, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — PLOS One · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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