''PLOS Genetics'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

scientific journal established in 2005 and published by the Public Library of Science. The founding editor-in-chief was Wayne N. Frankel ( Columbia University Medical Center). The current editors-in-chief are Gregory S. Barsh ( HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology and

Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This ...

) and Gregory P. Copenhaver ( The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). The journal covers research on all aspects of genetics and

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.917.

Research Prize

Since its tenth year of publication, the journal annually awards the $5000 ''PLOS Genetics Research Prize'' for the best paper published in the previous year based on nominations from members of the genetics community.

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