Q1 Infectious Diseases Journals

Browse Q1 Infectious Diseases journals and compare the highest impact Infectious Diseases journals in our database. Each listing includes key details authors often use when choosing where to submit.

Rankings are based on the latest Journal Impact Factor and quartile data currently available in our journal database.

#1
LI
JIF 31
Q1
Hybrid

The Lancet Infectious Diseases is a journal with ISSN 1473-3099 and a manuscript submission link through Editorial Manager. The homepage highlights current issues, online first content, series, commissions, audio, and journal metrics including an Impact Factor...

Identifiers

ISSN 1473-3099
eISSN 1474-4457

Publication Cost

Manuscript submission is free. Gold open access APC information is available through The Lancet open access programme; green open access is also offered.

Publishing Timeline

Fast-track submissions receive a prioritisation decision within 48 h, an initial publication decision typically within 2 weeks, and accepted papers normally publish online within 28 days of submission.
#2
LM

Elsevier BV

JIF 20.4
Q1
Hybrid

The Lancet Microbe publishes research, reviews, personal views, and news focused on microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases, diagnostics, and related clinical and public health topics.

Identifiers

eISSN 2666-5247

Publication Cost

Open Access

Publishing Timeline

Papers are published online as they become ready; proofs are returned within 48 h.
#3
LH

ELSEVIER

JIF 13
Q1
Hybrid

The Lancet HIV is a medical journal covering HIV research, policy, and clinical care.

Identifiers

ISSN 2352-3018
eISSN 2352-3018

Publication Cost

Manuscript submission is free; open access publication is available with an article processing charge (APC).

Publishing Timeline

Fast-track original research Articles are peer-reviewed within 3–5 days and, if accepted, published within 10 weeks from submission.
#4
JO
JIF 11.9
Q1
Open

The Journal of Infection publishes original papers on all aspects of infection, including clinical, microbiological, and epidemiological research and clinical practice. It is the official journal of the British Infection Association and includes editorials, re...

Identifiers

ISSN 0163-4453
eISSN 1532-2742

Publication Cost

Article Publishing Charge (APC): USD 4,030 excluding taxes.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision: 6 days; submission to decision after review: 56 days; submission to acceptance: 77 days; acceptance to online publication: 6 days.
#5
CM
JIF 8.5
Q1
Hybrid

Clinical Microbiology and Infection is a monthly English-language journal of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases published by Elsevier. It publishes peer-reviewed papers on basic and applied research relevant to therapy and di...

Identifiers

ISSN 1198-743X
eISSN 1469-0691

Publication Cost

Open access APC USD 4,160 excluding taxes; no publication fee under the subscription model.

Publishing Timeline

8 days from acceptance to online publication
#6
Eu

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

JIF 7.8
Q1
Closed

Eurosurveillance publishes one issue every Thursday and offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) recognition credits for completing a manuscript peer review.

Identifiers

ISSN 1025-496X
eISSN 1560-7917

Publication Cost

Open access, free of charge for both readers and authors.

Publishing Timeline

One issue is published every Thursday.
#7
EM
JIF 7.5
Q1
Open

Emerging Microbes & Infections is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing research on emerging infections. It covers epidemic surveillance, clinical manifestation, diagnosis and management, cellular and molecular pathogenesis, immune responses, drug dis...

Identifiers

eISSN 2222-1751

Publication Cost

Article Publishing Charge (APC) may be required for open access publication; reduced or waived APC may be available through agreements, memberships, discounts, or waivers.

Publishing Timeline

30 days from submission to first decision; 38 days from submission to first post-review decision; 20 days from acceptance to online publication
#8
CI

Oxford University Press

JIF 7.3
Q1
Closed

Clinical Infectious Diseases is an Infectious Diseases Society of America journal published by Oxford University Press.

Identifiers

ISSN 1058-4838
eISSN 1537-6591

Publishing Timeline

Median days to first decision: 6 (with desk rejects) and 39 (without desk rejects). Median days to final decision: 8 (with desk rejects) and 72 (without desk rejects). Manuscripts are first published online within 24–72 hours of acceptance; corrected proofs are published within 3–5 weeks.
#9
EI

CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION

JIF 6.6
Q1
Open

Emerging Infectious Diseases (ISSN: 1080-6059) is a U.S. government public health journal that publishes articles across multiple sections including research, dispatches, and letters, and provides access to its contents through PubMed Central.

Identifiers

ISSN 1080-6040
eISSN 1080-6059

Publication Cost

Publishing in EID is free—no submission fees, page charges, costs for corrections, or other fees.

Publishing Timeline

Published monthly.
#10
JO
Journal Of Travel Medicine

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC

JIF 6.4
Q1
Hybrid

Journal of Travel Medicine publishes research and curated article collections addressing travel-related health risks, including deaths, injuries, medical emergencies, and other issues relevant to international travelers and the field of travel medicine.

Identifiers

ISSN 1195-1982
eISSN 1708-8305

Publication Cost

No page charges. Open access publication requires payment of an open access charge, with a 50% discount for Rapid Communication, Editorial, Letter to the Editor, Clinical Pearls, Perspective, and Research Letter article types.

Publishing Timeline

10 days from submission to first decision; 5 days from acceptance to publication
Profile coming soon
#11
ID
JIF 5.5
Q1
Open

Infectious Diseases of Poverty is an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing topic areas and methods that address essential public health questions relating to infectious diseases of poverty. It covers biology of pathogens and vectors, diagnosis and dete...

Identifiers

ISSN 2095-5162
eISSN 2049-9957

Publication Cost

Beginning from January 1, 2026, authors of articles accepted for publication in Acta Epileptologica need to pay an article-processing charge (APC).

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision (median): 4 days
#12
NM
JIF 5.4
Q1
Open

New Microbes and New Infections (NMNI) publishes cutting-edge open access papers on all aspects of emerging microbes and infections, as well as "old microbes" with new presentations such as drug-resistant malaria, antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, re-emerging...

Identifiers

eISSN 2052-2975

Publication Cost

Article Publishing Charge (APC): USD 2,770 (excluding taxes).
#13
Vi

Taylor & Francis

JIF 5.4
Q1
Open

Virulence publishes open access peer-reviewed research on microbial pathogenicity, infection processes, host-pathogen interactions, infectious diseases, emerging infectious agents, and antimicrobial resistance.

Identifiers

ISSN 2150-5594
eISSN 2150-5608

Publication Cost

An article publishing charge (APC) may be required; waivers, discounts, or institutional agreements may reduce the cost

Publishing Timeline

22 days avg. from submission to first decision; 65 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision; 12 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
#14
ID

Adis, Springer Healthcare

JIF 5.3
Q1
Open

Infectious Diseases and Therapy is an international, open access, peer-reviewed, rapid publication journal dedicated to high-quality clinical, observational, real-world, and health outcomes research on infectious disease therapies and interventions, including...

Identifiers

ISSN 2193-8229
eISSN 2193-6382

Publication Cost

Mandatory Rapid Service Fee of €5950/$7675/£5120 upon acceptance; additional fee for podcast articles.

Publishing Timeline

2-week peer review and 3-4 weeks from acceptance to online publication; submission to first decision median is 1 day.
#15
JO

Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) is a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes HIV research spanning basic and biomedical sciences, behavioural sciences, epidemiology, clinical sciences, health economics and health policy, operations re...

Identifiers

eISSN 1758-2652

Publication Cost

Article Processing Charge (APC) applies for all accepted and published articles; waivers or discounts may be available for authors from eligible countries.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision: 29 days (median)
#16
TM
JIF 4.7
Q1
Open

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease publishes articles on infectious disease in the context of travel medicine, including epidemiology, surveillance of travel-related illness, prevention and treatment of travel-associated infections, and topics of controver...

Identifiers

ISSN 1477-8939
eISSN 1873-0442

Publication Cost

Article Publishing Charge (APC): USD 3,780 (excluding taxes).

Publishing Timeline

3 days to first decision; 40 days to decision after review; 76 days to acceptance; 2 days to online publication
#17
An

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

JIF 4.6
Q1
Open

Antibiotics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on all aspects of antibiotics, published monthly online by MDPI. It is indexed in PubMed and has a JCR Q1 quartile ranking in Infectious Diseases and Pharmacology and Pharmacy.

Identifiers

ISSN 2079-6382
eISSN 2079-6382

Publication Cost

Article processing charges apply; Croatian Pharmacological Society members receive discounts.

Publishing Timeline

Time to first decision: 17 days
#18
IJ

The International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents is the official journal of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and publishes peer reviewed reference information on the physical, pharmacological, in vitro and clinical properties of antimic...

Identifiers

ISSN 0924-8579
eISSN 1872-7913

Publication Cost

Open access APC: USD 3,280 excluding taxes. Subscription publication has no publication fee charged to authors.

Publishing Timeline

10 days to first decision; 64 days to decision after review; 144 days to acceptance; 6 days from acceptance to online publication
#19
OH

ELSEVIER

JIF 4.5
Q1
Open

One Health is the official journal of the International Federation for Tropical Medicine and is a Gold Open Access journal. It provides a platform for rapid communication of high quality scientific knowledge on inter- and intra-species pathogen transmission, b...

Identifiers

eISSN 2352-7714

Publication Cost

Article Publishing Charge (APC): USD 3,230 (excluding taxes).

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision: 4 days; submission to decision after review: 51 days; submission to acceptance: 114 days; acceptance to online publication: 3 days.
#20
AR
Antimicrobial Resistance And Infection Control

BMC

JIF 4.4
Q1

Identifiers

ISSN 2047-2994
eISSN 2047-2994
Profile coming soon
#21
CH

Springer Science+Business Media

JIF 4.4
Q1
Hybrid

Current HIV/AIDS Reports provides in-depth review articles contributed by international experts on the most significant developments in HIV/AIDS, with balanced coverage of diagnosis, treatment, management, and prevention.

Identifiers

ISSN 1548-3568
eISSN 1548-3576

Publication Cost

Color illustrations are free of charge for online publication. Open Choice APCs vary by journal.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision (median): 12 days
#22
IJ

The International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health is a multidisciplinary forum for reports on exposure assessment and on reactions to and consequences of human exposure to biological, chemical, and physical environmental factors, with priority give...

Identifiers

ISSN 1438-4639
eISSN 1618-131X

Publication Cost

Open access APC: USD 3,610 excluding taxes; subscription option with no publication fee charged to authors

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision: 5 days; submission to decision after review: 58 days; submission to acceptance: 123 days; acceptance to online publication: 7 days
#23
IJ

International Journal of Infectious Diseases is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published monthly by the International Society for Infectious Diseases. It publishes original clinical and laboratory-based research, clinical trials, reviews, and some case r...

Identifiers

ISSN 1201-9712
eISSN 1878-3511

Publication Cost

Article Publishing Charge (APC): USD 3,500 (excluding taxes).

Publishing Timeline

6 days to first decision; 37 days to decision after review; 62 days to acceptance; 3 days from acceptance to online publication
#24
IA

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses is a virology open access journal specializing exclusively in influenza and other respiratory viruses, with a direct focus on prevention, detection, treatment and control. The journal has a broad readership of laboratory...

Identifiers

ISSN 1750-2640
eISSN 1750-2659

Publication Cost

Accepted papers pay an Article Publication Charge; Editorials and Letters to the Editor are published free of charge.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision: 14 days (median)
#25
CO

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS

JIF 4
Q1
Closed

Current Opinion publishes commissioned review articles only and does not consider unsolicited manuscripts. Manuscripts require structured abstracts, keywords, references in Vancouver style, figure and table formatting, and separate submission of figures and ta...

Identifiers

ISSN 0951-7375
eISSN 1473-6527

Publication Cost

Open access APC charged on acceptance; $0.00 APC for eligible read-and-publish agreement authors; $1,000 charge for color figures in the print version.
#26
JO

The Journal of Infection and Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier and affiliated with the Saudi Arabian Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, and the Saudi Ass...

Identifiers

ISSN 1876-0341
eISSN 1876-035X

Publication Cost

Article Publishing Charge (APC): USD 2,310 excluding taxes

Publishing Timeline

10 days to first decision; 52 days to decision after review; 132 days to acceptance; 4 days from acceptance to online publication
#27
AI

American Chemical Society

JIF 3.8
Q1
Closed

ACS Infectious Diseases highlights the role of chemistry in the multidisciplinary and collaborative field of infectious diseases.

Identifiers

ISSN 2373-8227

Publication Cost

No submission or publication fees are charged unless authors choose an open access option, which incurs an additional fee.

Publishing Timeline

Time to first peer review decision: 36.5 days (median); Time to accept: 92.2 days (median); Time from accept to ASAP: 12.6 days (median).
#28
AP

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

JIF 3.8
Q1
Closed

AIDS Patient Care and STDs is a journal focused on diagnostics and therapeutics for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, publishing clinical, basic science, sociologic, and behavior-based investigations. It includes clinical trials, quantitative...

Identifiers

ISSN 1087-2914
eISSN 1557-7449

Publication Cost

Mandatory submission fee: $49. Optional open access publishing is available. Color figures in print cost $800 for the first image and $200 for subsequent color print images.

Publishing Timeline

OnlineFirst publication is available for final articles published online immediately after acceptance.
#29
ER
JIF 3.8
Q1
Hybrid

Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy is a MEDLINE-indexed, international subscription-based journal publishing rigorously peer-reviewed review articles and original papers on therapeutics and diagnostics in the treatment of infectious disease. Articles inco...

Identifiers

ISSN 1478-7210
eISSN 1744-8336

Publication Cost

Authors can publish gold open access in this journal.

Publishing Timeline

Accelerated publication is offered.
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