PLOS Medicine

*PLOS Medicine*
Discipline	Medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Raffaella Bosurgi
Publication details
History	2004–present
Publisher	Public Library of Science
Frequency	Weekly
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution License
Impact factor	11.613 (2021)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	PLOS Med.
Indexing;
ISSN	1549-1277 (print); 1549-1676 (web);
LCCN	2004212194
OCLC no.	54674092
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

PLOS Medicine (formerly styled PLoS Medicine)^[1] is a peer-reviewed weekly medical journal covering the full spectrum of the medical sciences. It began operation on October 19, 2004, as 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 fees. The journal was published online and in a printed format until 2005 and is now only published online. The journal's acting chief editor is Clare Stone, who replaced the previous chief editor, Larry Peiperl, in 2018.

^ David Knutson (23 July 2012). "New PLOS look". PLOS Blog. Public Library of Science. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2012.