Journal of Infection
Last updated ISSN 0163-4453
Journal of Infection is published by Elsevier BV in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $4,030.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Infection concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Bacterial Infections and Vaccines
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
- Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0163-4453, 1532-2742 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $4,030 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 10,829 |
| Publishing since | 1979 |
| Journal website | www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-infection |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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