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In September 2009, ''PLOS One'' received the Publishing Innovation Award of the [[Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=251&groupid=192&groupname=About+ALPSP|title=ALPSP Awards 2010–finalists announced|work=ALPSP|accessdate=9 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211051525/http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=251&groupid=192&groupname=About%20ALPSP|archive-date=11 December 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The award is given in recognition of a "truly innovative approach to any aspect of publication as adjudged from originality and innovative qualities, together with utility, benefit to the community and long-term prospects". In January 2010, it was announced that the journal would be included in the ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]'',<ref>{{cite web |work=PLOS Blogs |title=PLOS ONE indexed by Web of Science |url=http://www.plos.org/cms/node/506 |first=Mark |last=Patterson |accessdate=9 September 2010 |date=5 January 2010}}</ref> and the journal received an impact factor of 4.411 in 2010. According to the ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]'', the journal has a 2018 [[impact factor]] of 2.776.<ref name=WoS>{{cite book |year=2018 |chapter=PLOS One |title=2018 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=[[Clarivate Analytics]] |edition=Science |series=[[Web of Science]]|title-link=Journal Citation Reports }}</ref>
 
In 2016, [[Jeffrey Beall]] described ''PLOS One'' as a scientific spammer. DueOwing to problemsconcerns inabout the reviewingpeer review process at the time, he considered the journal more as a digital repository than a scholarly publication.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beall |first1=Jeffrey |title=Ongoing Questions about PLOS ONE’s Peer Review |url=https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/08/23/ongoing-questions-about-plos-ones-peer-review/ |website=Scholarly Open Access |accessdate=23 December 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824014201/https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/08/23/ongoing-questions-about-plos-ones-peer-review/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
== Abstracting and indexing ==