Retrovirology
Last updated ISSN 1742-4690
Retrovirology is published by BioMed Central in immunology and microbiology. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,890.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Retrovirology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- HIV Research and Treatment
- HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
- T-cell and Retrovirus Studies
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- HIV-related health complications and treatments
- Virus-based gene therapy research
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1742-4690 |
| Subject area | Immunology and Microbiology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,890 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 4,750 |
| Publishing since | 1978 |
| Journal website | www.retrovirology.com/ |
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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