Journal of Virology
Last updated ISSN 0022-538X
Journal of Virology is published by American Society for Microbiology in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Virology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Virus-based gene therapy research
- HIV Research and Treatment
- Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Viral Infections and Immunology Research
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- Plant Virus Research Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | American Society for Microbiology |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0022-538X, 1070-6321, 1098-5514 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 52,088 |
| Publishing since | 1800 |
| Journal website | jvi.asm.org/ |
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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