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Top 10 Open Access Infectious Diseases Journals by Impact Factor

Compare leading open access Infectious Diseases journals ranked by Journal Impact Factor. Each journal summary highlights details authors often need when choosing where to submit.

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

#1
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.
#2
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
#3
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.
#4
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
#5
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).
#6
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
#7
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.
#8
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)
#9
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
#10
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
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