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Manuscript Auditing →01Impact factor
Impact factor of PLoS Biology (2026)
The impact factor shown here is the 2-year mean citedness: citations received in a year by the papers PLoS Biology published in the two previous years, divided by the number of those papers. That is the same formula as the Journal Impact Factor, applied to the open citation data of OpenAlex. The journal is listed in JCR 2024, so it also has an official Journal Impact Factor published by Clarivate, which can differ because it counts citations from Web of Science journals only.
Rank in its subject categories
- Q1Biologyrank 4 of 115 journals
- Q1Biochemistry & Molecular Biologyrank 51 of 339 journals
Quartiles here rank journals of the same Web of Science category by 2-year citedness; they are not the official JCR quartiles.
Citations and papers per year
Open access (listed in DOAJ); article processing charge listed at about US$5,500.
02Indexing
Indexing of PLoS Biology
- ISSN
- 1544-9173
- eISSN
- 1545-7885
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Scopus source type
- Journal
- Web of Science categories
- Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Biology
From the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab, updated 1 March 2026. Indexing can change: confirm on the Web of Science Master Journal List or the Scopus source list before submitting. Official Journal Impact Factors and JCR quartiles are published by Clarivate; the impact factor and quartile on this page are calculated from OpenAlex open data (see how the impact factor works).
03What it publishes
What PLoS Biology publishes: real papers
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04Published papers
Papers published in PLoS Biology
Papers from the publication records ScholarsColab tracks, with their year and citations. Author names are not shown.
- Emotion regulation success involves systematic gradient-based reconfigurations of large-scale activation patterns in the human brain20260 citations
- Ischemic stroke triggers brain-wide synaptic remodeling within four hours20260 citations
- Cortisol treatment impairs path integration and alters grid-like representations in the male human entorhinal cortex20260 citations
- Diversity patterns in terrestrial tetrapod clades are governed by equilibrium dynamics20260 citations
- Cdc42 interacts with chaperone Ydj1 to enhance its stability and partitioning during asymmetric cell division and aging in yeast20260 citations
- Synapse types are spatially associated with regional hemodynamics in the mouse brain20260 citations
- A cost-effective and scalable barcoded library construction method for deep mutational scanning studies20260 citations
- Synaptic input variation enhances rate coding at the expense of temporal precision in cochlear nucleus neurons20260 citations
- Genotype-fitness mapping of adaptive mutants reveals shifting low-dimensional structure across divergent environments20260 citations
- Periodic fasting and refeeding re-shapes lipid saturation, storage, and distribution in brown adipose tissue20260 citations
- Emergent spatial structure in the gut microbiota is driven by bacterial growth and gut contractions20260 citations
- Grik2b and Grik2c kainate receptors regulate oviposition in Bactrocera dorsalis20260 citations
- Pangenome graph analysis reveals evolution of resistance breaking in spinach downy mildew20260 citations
- Five energy metabolism pathways show distinct regional distributions and lifespan trajectories in the human brain20260 citations
- Augmentation of frontoparietal gamma-band phase coupling enhances human altruistic behavior20260 citations
- The human dorsal anterior cingulate facilitates acceptance of unfair offers and regulates inequity aversion20260 citations
- Systematic identification of Salmonella T6SS effectors uncovers diverse new families and lipid-targeting activities20260 citations
- Dynamic auxin maxima regulate male-to-hermaphrodite conversion and de novo meristem formation in the fern Ceratopteris gametophytes20260 citations
- The adaptor protein TASL is required for age-related B cell emergence and lupus-like disease development in mice20260 citations
- The retrieval of previously learned motor memories is facilitated by the reinstatement of default mode network manifold structures20260 citations
- Structures of the human glucose-6-phosphate transporter provide insights into its transport cycle and substrate recognition20260 citations
- Calcium signaling regulates apoptosis-induced proliferation in Drosophila20260 citations
- Deep learning in biology faces a transferability crisis20260 citations
- A deep learning-based computational pipeline predicts developmental outcome in retinal organoids20260 citations
- Glucose is dynamically regulated by time of day in humans and Drosophila20260 citations
- Cell type-agnostic transcriptomic signatures enable uniform comparisons of neural maturation20260 citations
- DNA damage induced by HIV-1 Vpr triggers epigenetic remodeling and transcriptional programs to enhance virus transcription and latency reactivation20260 citations
- Expansion of the geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase gene family underlies the evolution of terpenoid biosynthesis in termites20260 citations
- DRfold2 is a deep learning-based tool that enables efficient and accurate RNA structure prediction20260 citations
- Transcript diversity reflects deleterious RNA processing errors shaped by population size in metazoans20260 citations
- Resource landscape shapes the composition and stability of the human vaginal microbiota20260 citations
- Neuronal populations across the cortex underlie discrete, categorical, and subjective representations of visual durations20260 citations
- BehaveAI enables rapid detection and classification of objects and behavior from motion20260 citations
- Microstructural profiles of the human superficial white matter and their associations to cortical geometry and connectivity20260 citations
- Temperate phage evolve to integrate host stress and quorum signals in lysis–lysogeny decisions20260 citations
- Human newborns form musical predictions based on rhythmic but not melodic structure20260 citations
- Social compatibility in opposite-sex prairie vole pairs is modulated by early-life sleep experience20260 citations
- The Rpd3 histone deacetylase is a critical regulator of temperature-mediated morphogenesis and virulence in the human fungal pathogen Histoplasma20260 citations
- Pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods of inducing wakefulness activate distinct neural populations in the mouse brain20260 citations
- Could sleep engineering be used to combat PTSD and depression?20260 citations
- A light-entrained clock mechanism in a hydrozoan jellyfish synchronizes evening gamete release20260 citations
- Sleep strengthens successor representations of learned sequences in humans20260 citations
- Targeting immunometabolism in cancer through pharmacological and lifestyle interventions20260 citations
- Behavioral engagement facilitates auditory neuron responses beyond their receptive fields20260 citations
- Bacteria producing the bioplastic polyhydroxybutyrate kill the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans20260 citations
- Piriform seizures mediated by the piriform-entorhino-dentate circuit induce brain-wide functional reorganization in mice20260 citations
- Dynamic expectation strength and precision shape human pain perception through shared and dissociable α-oscillatory mechanisms20260 citations
- Foxi1 regulates multipotent mucociliary progenitors and ionocyte specification through transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms20260 citations
- CUL5 E3 ubiquitin ligase regulates the evasion of bladder cancer cells to CD8+ T cell-mediated killing by inhibiting autophagy20260 citations
- Frequency-specific attentional mechanisms phasically modulate the influence of distractors on task performance20260 citations
- SVASCilia is an open-source, deep learning-based tool for 3D analysis of cochlear hair cell stereocilia bundles20260 citations
- A gut-activated NHR-86–CYP pathway mediates the neuroprotective effects of Enterococcus faecium probiotics in a nematode model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis20260 citations
- Neural traces of composite tasks in complex task representation in the human brain reflects learning performance20260 citations
- Oligomeric lactic acid nanoplastics induce intrauterine growth restriction in mice by disrupting GATA2-mediated placental vascular development20260 citations
- Characterization of the spatiotemporal representations of visual, semantic, and memorability features in the human brain20260 citations
- An international consensus on core reproducibility items in research20260 citations
- MMSpa is a deep learning-based tool that enhances the identification of spatial domains in spatial transcriptomics studies20260 citations
- Transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility profiling unveils new regulators of heat hormesis in Caenorhabditis elegans20260 citations
- A bacterial ecocline in Klebsiella pneumoniae may explain its backboned phylogeny20260 citations
- Microbial tryptophan metabolism activates host lysosomal activity to facilitate lipid breakdown20260 citations
- Sensory sharpening and semantic prediction errors unify competing models of predictive processing in human speech comprehension20260 citations
- The non-vesicular cholesterol transporter GRAMD1C is a pan-coronavirus antiviral target20260 citations
- Eye movements reflect memory-related theta activity in the human brain20260 citations
- How does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions?20260 citations
- Comparative embryogenesis of two salp species reveals rogue development and evolutionary divergence from sessile tunicates20260 citations
- Evolution of a truncated nucleocapsid protein enhances SARS-CoV-2 fitness by suppressing antiviral responses20260 citations
- Action information is integrated into entorhinal representations of conceptual space and is reflected in eye movements20260 citations
- Iridophore apoptosis mediates socially-regulated developmental color pattern plasticity in an anemonefish20260 citations
- A quantitative cell-based reporter links TDP-43 aggregation and dysfunction to define pathogenic mechanisms20260 citations
- Plug-and-play evolution of the Klebsiella pneumoniae capsule locus enables serotype exchange across genetic backgrounds20260 citations
- Three-dimensional scene boundary representations for wall orientation and distance are represented distinctly in the human visual cortex20260 citations
- Somatosensory input drives membrane potential dynamics in motor cortex during voluntary limb movement20260 citations
- Vasopressin and angiotensin II pathways differentially modulate human fear response dynamics to looming threats20260 citations
- Gpc3 selectively suppresses subcutaneous adipogenesis in diet-induced obesity20260 citations
- Macrophages self-generate and refine chemotactic gradients during migration towards complement C5a20260 citations
- A GABAergic network from AVP-to VIP-neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus sets the timing of circadian behavior rhythms20260 citations
- Microglia sense fungal infections through capsular components from capillary-bound Cryptococcus neoformans via endothelial nucleotide signaling20260 citations
- Experimental evidence that penis size, height, and body shape influence assessment of male sexual attractiveness and fighting ability in humans20260 citations
- Predictable motion is progressively extrapolated across temporally distinct processing stages in the human visual cortex20250 citations
- Quantitative modeling of multi-signal quorum-sensing maps environment to bacterial regulatory responses20250 citations
- Human brain integrates both unconditional and conditional timing statistics to guide expectation and behavior20250 citations
- An agricultural triazole induces genomic instability and haploid cell formation in the human fungal pathogen Candida tropicalis20250 citations
- Encoding of visual stimuli and behavioral goals in distinct anatomical areas of monkey ventrolateral prefrontal cortex20250 citations
- Transfer of motor learning is associated with patterns of activity in the default mode network20250 citations
- Polar cell membrane nanotubes containing microtubules and acidic vesicles render Drosophila eggs fertile20250 citations
- Does oxygen limitation set thermal limits in aquatic ectotherms?20250 citations
- Adaptive communication between cell assemblies and “reader” neurons shapes flexible brain dynamics20250 citations
- The central histaminergic system slows visual processing in the retina and lateral geniculate nucleus of awake mice20250 citations
- Episodic memory involves transient and sparse connectivity aligned to both internal and external events20250 citations
- The transcription factor SKN-1 drives lysosomal enlargement during aging to maintain function20250 citations
- Development of bitopic nanobody-ligand conjugates targeting G protein-coupled receptors and exhibiting logic-gated signaling20250 citations
- RNG2 tethers the conoid to the apical polar ring in Toxoplasma gondii to enable parasite motility and invasion20250 citations
- Combining gamma neuromodulation and robotic rehabilitation after a stroke restores parvalbumin interneuron dynamics and improves motor recovery in mice20250 citations
- Werner syndrome exonuclease promotes gut regeneration and causes age-associated gut hyperplasia in Drosophila20250 citations
- Compare first, evaluate later: Upending the neuroscience of choice20250 citations
- Neural evidence that humans reuse strategies to solve new tasks20250 citations
- The modern expansion of Dscam1 isoform diversity in Drosophila is linked to fitness and immunity20250 citations
- MSP-tracker: A versatile vesicle tracking software tool used to reveal the spatial control of polarized secretion in Drosophila epithelial cells20250 citations
- Short-term memory errors are strongly associated with a drift in neural activity in the posterior parietal cortex20250 citations
- Efficient and reliable spike sorting from neural recordings with UMAP-based unsupervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction20250 citations
- SGO2 does not play an essential role in separase inhibition during meiosis I in mouse oocytes20250 citations
- Total cerebral blood volume changes drive macroscopic cerebrospinal fluid flux in humans20250 citations
- Continuous monitoring and machine vision reveals that developing gerbils exhibit structured social behaviors prior to the emergence of autonomy20250 citations
- Neural mechanisms for the attention-mediated propagation of conceptual information in the human brain20250 citations
- A dynamic spatiotemporal normalization model captures perceptual and neural effects of spatial and temporal context20250 citations
- Legionella effector LpPIP recruits protein phosphatase 1 to the mitochondria to induce dephosphorylation of outer membrane proteins20250 citations
- Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research20250 citations
- Environmental noise-induced changes to the IC-SNc circuit promotes motor deficits and neuronal vulnerability in a mouse model of Parkinson's Disease20250 citations
- The locus coeruleus influences behavior by coordinating effective integration of fear memories and sensory input20250 citations
- A model of early-life interactions between the gut microbiome and adaptive immunity provides insights into the ontogeny of immune tolerance20250 citations
- The host range of generalist and specialist phages in capsule-diverse Klebsiella hosts is driven by the evolvability of receptor-binding proteins20250 citations
- Mitochondrial Complex I and ROS control neuromuscular function through opposing pre-and postsynaptic mechanisms20250 citations
- Identification of a large anion channel required for digestive vacuole acidification and amino acid export in Plasmodium falciparum20250 citations
- The Drosophila escape motor circuit shows differential vulnerability to aging linked to functional decay20250 citations
- Penguins exploit tidal currents for efficient navigation and opportunistic foraging20250 citations
- Cell2Spatial is a computational framework that maps single cells to spatial transcriptomic spots to reconstruct tissue architecture20250 citations
- GitHub enables collaborative and reproducible laboratory research20250 citations
- Staphylococcal toxin PVL ruptures model membranes under acidic conditions through interactions with cardiolipin and phosphatidic acid20250 citations
- The human medial temporal lobe represents memory items in their ordinal position in both declarative and motor memory domains20250 citations
- Challenges and opportunities for the next generation of computational tumor models20250 citations
- Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication, and neofunctionalization20250 citations
- Whisking and locomotion are jointly represented in superior colliculus neurons20250 citations
- The Hunchback transcription factor determines interneuron molecular identity, morphology, and presynapse targeting in the Drosophila NB5-2 lineage20250 citations
- Incomplete lytic cycle of a widespread Bacteroides bacteriophage leads to the formation of defective viral particles20250 citations
- Structure of human glycoprotein 2 reveals mechanisms underlying filament formation and adaption to proteolytic environment in the digestive tract20250 citations
- The mTORC2 subunit RICTOR drives breast cancer progression by promoting ganglioside biosynthesis through transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms20250 citations
- The prefrontal cortex encodes task-identity information and flexibly adjusts its sensory processes as a function of the specific ongoing task20250 citations
- Mitochondrial ROS and HIF-1α signaling mediate synaptic plasticity in the critical period20250 citations
- Microsaccades strongly modulate but do not directly cause the EEG N2pc marker of spatial attention20250 citations
- Wakefulness can be distinguished from general anesthesia and sleep in flies using a massive library of univariate time series analyses20250 citations
- Structure of the scaffolding protein and portal within the bacteriophage P22 procapsid provides insights into the self-assembly process20250 citations
- Permeability selection of biologically relevant membranes matches the stereochemistry of life on Earth20250 citations
- Structures of G-protein coupled receptor HCAR3 in complex with selective agonists reveal the basis for ligand recognition and selectivity20250 citations
- An animal toxin-antidote system kills cells by creating a novel cation channel20250 citations
- Calcium signaling is required for anterior patterning in the mouse embryo20250 citations
- Expanding the bat toolbox: Carollia perspicillata bat cell lines and reagents enable the characterization of viral susceptibility and innate immune responses20250 citations
- Sound feature representations decorrelate across the mouse auditory pathway20250 citations
- Recurrence affects the geometry of visual representations across the ventral visual stream in the human brain20250 citations
- Dynamic collateral sensitivity profiles highlight opportunities and challenges for optimizing antibiotic treatments20250 citations
- The multiscale brain structural re-organization that occurs from childhood to adolescence correlates with cortical morphology maturation and functional specialization20250 citations
- Sleep deprivation and sleep intensity exert distinct effects on cerebral vasomotion and brain pulsations driven by the respiratory and cardiac cycles20250 citations
- Terminology in ecology and evolutionary biology disproportionately harms marginalized groups20250 citations
- Nicotine induces abnormal motor coupling through sensitization of a mechanosensory circuit in Caenorhabditis elegans20250 citations
- Single-cell and spatiotemporal profile of ovulation in the mouse ovary20250 citations
- The mysterious link between migraine aura and migraine headache20250 citations
- Basal forebrain cholinergic input mediates adaptive attention allocation to enhance olfactory discrimination20250 citations
- Recurrent circuits encode de novo visual center-surround computations in the mouse superior colliculus20250 citations
- Ancestral [Fe-S] biogenesis system SMS has a unique mechanism of cluster assembly and sulfur utilization20250 citations
- Cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms independently modulate motor corticospinal excitability in humans20250 citations
- Caspase 3 and caspase 7 promote cytoprotective autophagy and the DNA damage response during non-lethal stress conditions in human breast cancer cells20250 citations
- Neuronal responses in the human primary motor cortex coincide with the subjective onset of movement intention in brain–machine interface-mediated actions20250 citations
- Inhibitory circuit motifs in Drosophila larvae generate motor program diversity and variability20250 citations
- Uropathogenic Escherichia coli proliferate as a coccoid morphotype inside human host cells20250 citations
- Persistent viral infections impact key biological traits in Drosophila melanogaster20250 citations
- Sensitive red fluorescent indicators for real-time visualization of potassium ion dynamics in vivo20250 citations
- A common pathway controls cell size in the sepal and leaf epidermis leading to a nonrandom pattern of giant cells20250 citations
- MK-8527 is a novel inhibitor of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase translocation with potential for extended-duration dosing20250 citations
- Frontal and parietal planning signals encode adapted motor commands when learning to control a brain–computer interface20250 citations
- Cilia in the brain display region-dependent oscillations of length and orientation20250 citations
- Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria20250 citations
- Developmental auditory deprivation in one ear impairs brainstem binaural processing and reduces spatial hearing acuity20250 citations
- A unified framework to model synaptic dynamics during the sleep–wake cycle20250 citations
- O-GlcNAcylation of nuclear proteins in the mouse liver exhibit daily oscillations that are influenced by meal timing20250 citations
- Completing the BASEL phage collection to unlock hidden diversity for systematic exploration of phage–host interactions20250 citations
- Paralogs of Slitrk cell adhesion molecules configure excitatory synapse specificity via distinct cellular mechanisms20250 citations
- Cardiometabolic health and physical robustness map onto distinct patterns of brain structure and neurotransmitter systems20250 citations
- Comparative single-cell transcriptomic atlases of drosophilid brains suggest glial evolution during ecological adaptation20250 citations
- qByte: An open-source isothermal fluorimeter for democratizing analysis of nucleic acids, proteins and cells20250 citations
- Adaptive landscapes unveil the complex evolutionary path from sprawling to upright forelimb function and posture in mammals20250 citations
- Flexible competency framework: A tool for optimizing life science training20250 citations
- How did vocal communication come to dominate human language? A view from the womb20250 citations
- Maternal food-derived signals oscillate in the fetal suprachiasmatic nucleus before its circadian clock develops20250 citations
- Biased sampling driven by bacterial population structure confounds machine learning prediction of antimicrobial resistance20250 citations
- How to harness the effects of exudates and microbes that support beneficial plant–plant interactions for sustainable agriculture20250 citations
- Arthropod biodiversity loss from nitrogen deposition is buffered by natural and semi-natural habitats20250 citations
- Foveal neurons of the monkey superior colliculus signal trans-saccadic prediction errors20250 citations
- The auditory brainstem response to natural speech is not affected by selective attention20250 citations
- Behavioral inflexibility through overtraining is mediated by reduced mGluR1/5 signaling capacity in the dorsolateral striatum20250 citations
- Loss of neuropeptidergic regulation of cholinergic transmission induces homeostatic compensation in muscle cells to preserve synaptic strength20250 citations
- Foxi2 and Sox3 are master transcription regulators that control ectoderm germ layer specification in Xenopus20250 citations
- Loss of Pol III repressor Maf1 in neurons promotes longevity by preventing the age-related decline in 5S rRNA and translation20250 citations
- Gnb5 is a negative regulator of the BACE1-mediated Aβ generation and ameliorates cognitive deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease20250 citations
- Past conservation efforts reveal which actions lead to positive outcomes for species20250 citations
- Sox5 controls the establishment of quiescence in neural stem cells during postnatal development20250 citations
- Amyloid precursor protein modulates cerebellar Purkinje cell activity and motor function through regulation of Nav1. 6 currents20250 citations
- A framework to determine active neurons and networks within the mouse brain reveals how brain activity changes over the course of the day20250 citations
- Defining cellular diversity at the swine maternal–fetal interface using spatial transcriptomics and organoids20250 citations
- SIFa peptidergic neurons orchestrate the internal states and energy balance of male Drosophila melanogaster20250 citations
- The neurohormone tyramine stimulates the secretion of an insulin-like peptide from the Caenorhabditis elegans intestine to modulate the systemic stress response20250 citations
- Increased urea nitrogen salvaging by a remodeled gut microbiota helps nonhibernating pikas maintain protein homeostasis during winter20250 citations
- The bacterial type three secretion system induces mechanoporation of vacuolar membranes20250 citations
- Structural characterization of the ABC transporter DppABCDF in Escherichia coli reveals insights into dipeptide acquisition20250 citations
- Mapping the ultrastructural topology of the corynebacterial cell surface20250 citations
- Extreme diversity of phage amplification rates and phage–antibiotic interactions revealed by PHORCE20250 citations
- Seizure evolution in a mouse model of West syndrome involves complex and time-dependent synapse remodeling, gliosis and alterations in lipid metabolism20250 citations
- Understanding human brain function in real-world environments20250 citations
- Gap junctions allow transfer of metabolites between germ cells and somatic cells to promote germ cell growth in the Drosophila ovary20250 citations
- Neural variability reliably encodes interindividual differences in the perception of pain intensity20250 citations
- Humans have a longer period of cortical maturation across depth and hierarchy than macaques20250 citations
- An interbacterial cysteine protease toxin inhibits cell growth by targeting type II DNA topoisomerases GyrB and ParE20250 citations
- Oxygen supersaturation has negligible effects on warming tolerance across diverse aquatic ectotherms20250 citations
- Testing the reproducibility of ecological studies on insect behavior in a multi-laboratory setting identifies opportunities for improving experimental rigor20250 citations
- The suprachiasmatic nucleus regulates brown fat thermogenesis in male mice through an adrenergic receptor ADRB3-S100B signaling pathway20250 citations
- Goal-directed navigation in humans and deep reinforcement learning agents relies on an adaptive mix of vector-based and transition-based strategies20250 citations
- A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina20250 citations
- Single-nucleus transcriptomics of wing sexual dimorphism and scale cell specialization in sulphur butterflies20250 citations
- IL-17 stimulates erythropoiesis in vivo by amplifying the response of erythroid progenitors to erythropoietin20250 citations
- DISSeCT: An unsupervised framework for high-resolution mapping of rodent behavior using inertial sensors20250 citations
- Genetic, developmental, and neural changes underlying the evolution of butterfly mate preference20250 citations
- Attractive serial dependence arises during decision-making20250 citations
- Precise spike-timing information in the brainstem is well aligned with the needs of communication and the perception of environmental sounds20250 citations
- Coupling between spatial compartments integrates morphogenetic patterning in the organ of Corti20250 citations
- The complex evolution and genomic dynamics of mating-type loci in Cryptococcus and Kwoniella20250 citations
- HAPLN2 forms aggregates and promotes microglial inflammation during brain aging in mice20250 citations
- Natural sounds can be reconstructed from human neuroimaging data using deep neural network representation20250 citations
- Structural elucidation of the haptoglobin–hemoglobin clearance mechanism by macrophage scavenger receptor CD16320250 citations
- MEANtools integrates multi-omics data to identify metabolites and predict biosynthetic pathways20250 citations
- Improved effectiveness of vaccination campaigns against rabies by reducing spatial heterogeneity in coverage20250 citations
- Phase separation of a PKA type I regulatory subunit regulates β-cell function through cAMP compartmentalization20250 citations
- Malaria parasites can optimize transmission investment by sensing two within-host cues20250 citations
- STUPPIT is a proximity labeling tool for labeling intermediary proteins that bridge two non-interacting proteins20250 citations
- Top-down and bottom-up interactions rely on nested brain oscillations to shape rhythmic visual attention sampling20250 citations
- Signals from the niche promote distinct modes of translation initiation to control stem cell differentiation and renewal in the Drosophila testis20250 citations
- Caudal fin shape imprinted during late zebrafish embryogenesis is re-patterned by the Sonic hedgehog pathway20250 citations
- Transient frontopolar cortex stimulation induces prolonged disruption to counterfactual processing20250 citations
- Eye blinks synchronize with musical beats during music listening20250 citations
- Reward expectation yields distinct effects on sensory processing and decision making in the human brain20250 citations
- Transient juvenile demyelination impairs maturation and function of parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the prefrontal cortex20250 citations
- Variation in adult sex ratios in tetrapods is linked to sex chromosomes through mortality differences between males and females20250 citations
- Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior20250 citations
- Social knowledge about others is anchored to self-knowledge in the hippocampal formation20250 citations
- Reactivation of previous decisions repulsively biases sensory encoding but attractively biases decision-making20250 citations
- A major trade-off between growth and defense in Arabidopsis thaliana can vanish in field conditions20250 citations
- More science friction for less science fiction20250 citations
- Influenza A virus induces PI4P production at the endoplasmic reticulum in an ATG16L1-dependent manner to promote the egress of viral ribonucleoproteins20250 citations
- Adaptations of the axon initial segment in fast-spiking interneurons of the human neocortex support low action potential thresholds20250 citations
- Electrical Spinal Imaging: A noninvasive, high-resolution approach that enables electrophysiological mapping of the human spinal cord20250 citations
- Identification and characterization of tumor-associated astrocyte subpopulations and their interactions with the tumor microenvironment in experimental glioblastomas20250 citations
- Coordinated hippocampal–entorhinal representations support human context-dependent spatial navigation20250 citations
- Dual transcriptional activities of PAX3 and PAX7 spatially encode spinal cell fates through distinct gene networks20250 citations
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- Hydroxyurea induces an oxidative stress response that triggers ER expansion and cytoplasmic protein aggregation20250 citations
- The novel GlcNAc 6-phosphate dehydratase NagS governs a metabolic checkpoint that controls nutrient signaling in Streptomyces20250 citations
- The G protein modifier KCTD5 tunes the decoding of neuromodulatory signals necessary for motor function in striatal neurons20250 citations
- New solutions for antibiotic discovery: Prioritizing microbial biosynthetic space using ecology and machine learning20250 citations
- Diverse biophysical and molecular mechanisms drive phytoplankton sinking in response to starvation20250 citations
- Zebrafish fast muscle contractions avoid the mammalian requirement for voltage-gated Na+ channels20250 citations
- Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting20250 citations
- Cross‐species rescue reveals sequence requirements for a rapidly evolving intrinsically disordered region20250 citations
- Cuticular collagens mediate cross-kingdom predator–prey interactions between trapping fungi and nematodes20250 citations
- Altered auditory feature discrimination in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome20250 citations
- Rspo3-mediated metabolic liver zonation regulates systemic glucose metabolism and body mass in mice20250 citations
- A toolkit for mapping cell identities in relation to neighbors reveals conserved patterning of neuromesodermal progenitor populations20250 citations
- Bi-directional metabolic reprogramming between cancer cells and T cells reshapes the anti-tumor immune response20250 citations
- Post-transcriptional suppression of the pioneer factor Zelda protects the adult Drosophila testis from activation of the ovary program20250 citations
- Context-dependent activation of V1 parvalbumin interneurons enhances visual discrimination20250 citations
- A sensitive soma-localized red fluorescent calcium indicator for in vivo imaging of neuronal populations at single-cell resolution20250 citations
- Object knowledge representation in the human visual cortex requires a connection with the language system20250 citations
- Distinct alpha networks modulate different aspects of perceptual decision-making20250 citations
- Highly accurate image registration for 3D multiplexed cyclic imaging using dense labeling in expandable tissue gels20250 citations
- Contextual auditory processing in the inferior colliculus is affected in a sex-and age-dependent manner in the valproic acid-induced rat model of autism20250 citations
- Innovations in noninvasive sensory stimulation treatments to combat Alzheimer's disease20250 citations
- Hippocampal pyramidal cells of the CA1 region are not a major target of the thalamic nucleus reuniens20250 citations
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- Population genomics and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew in Europe20250 citations
- Layers of the monkey visual cortex are selectively modulated during electrical stimulation20250 citations
- Soil biodiversity and function under global change20250 citations
- Molecular states underlying neuronal cell type development and plasticity in the postnatal whisker cortex20250 citations
- Involuntary and voluntary memory retrieval relies on distinct neural representations and oscillatory processes20250 citations
- Multinucleated giant cells are hallmarks of ovarian aging with unique immune and degradation-associated molecular signatures20250 citations
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- Cortical astrocyte histamine-1-receptors regulate intracellular calcium and extracellular adenosine dynamics across sleep and wake20250 citations
- Human attention-guided visual perception is governed by rhythmic oscillations and aperiodic timescales20250 citations
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- The human olfactory bulb communicates perceived odor valence to the piriform cortex in the gamma band and receives a refined representation back in the beta band20240 citations
- Original speech and its echo are segregated and separately processed in the human brain20240 citations
- Visual perception of highly memorable images is mediated by a distributed network of ventral visual regions that enable a late memorability response20240 citations
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- Community-based reconstruction and simulation of a full-scale model of the rat hippocampus CA1 region20240 citations
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- A network-based modeling framework reveals the core signal transduction network underlying high carbon dioxide-induced stomatal closure in guard cells20240 citations
- A new polymodal gating model of the proton-activated chloride channel20230 citations
- Neurons in the primary visual cortex of freely moving rats encode both sensory and non-sensory task variables20230 citations
- NCoR1 controls Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth in myeloid cells by regulating the AMPK-mTOR-TFEB axis20230 citations
- Amygdala and insula contributions to dorsal-ventral pathway integration in the prosodic neural network20230 citations
- An interactive deep learning-based approach reveals mitochondrial cristae topologies20230 citations
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Based on OpenAlex citation data (October 2026), the 2-year impact factor of PLoS Biology is 7.18: papers it published in the two previous years were cited 7.18 times on average in a year. The journal is listed in JCR 2024, so Clarivate also publishes an official Journal Impact Factor, which can differ.
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