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PLOS Complex Systems is Scopus-indexed, DOAJ. Published by Public Library of Science.
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Publisher: Public Library of Science
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Listed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, but Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for this title — it may be newly indexed and not yet evaluated. Confirm its active status directly with Scopus before submitting.
PLOS Complex Systems has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI) — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,043 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
PLOS Complex Systems is published by Public Library of Science. Its ISSN is 2837-8830.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
PLOS Complex Systems has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex).
PLOS Complex Systems published 56 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (35.1%), Canada (7.3%) and Germany (7.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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