Top 10 Virology Journals by Impact Factor

Cell Host & Microbe was launched in March 2007 and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas between scientists studying microbes and those studying host immune, cell biological, and molecular responses upon colonization or infection. The journal publishes no...

Annual Review of Virology publishes review articles on advances in the understanding of viruses of animals, plants, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protozoa, including basic virology, viral disease mechanisms, virus-host interactions, and cellular and immune res...

Tumour Virus Research is an open access journal affiliated with the World Society for Virology that publishes primary research and review articles on virally driven neoplasia, including molecular and cancer virology, tumour models, diagnostics, vaccines, thera...

Reviews in Medical Virology publishes comprehensive reviews aimed at clinicians, medical microbiologists, and infectious disease specialists, focusing exclusively on medical and clinical aspects of virology. The journal prioritizes articles that synthesize adv...

Current Opinion in Virology is a systematic review journal that publishes six issues per year and aims to keep specialists up to date with developments in virology through invited review articles and editorial overviews across 11 sections, with one changing an...

PLOS Pathogens is an online-only journal focused on pathogen research and host-pathogen interactions. The journal publishes content including research articles, reviews, and Pearls, and is identified by ISSN 1553-7374 (online).

Journal of Medical Virology is a clinical virology journal publishing original scientific papers on fundamental and applied research concerning viruses affecting humans. It welcomes reports on the characterization, diagnosis, epidemiology, immunology and patho...

Journal of General Virology is a peer-reviewed virology journal that has been publishing research for more than 50 years. Its scope covers all aspects of animal, plant, insect, bacterial and fungal viruses, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, molecular...

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...

Antiviral Research publishes manuscripts on the prevention and treatment of viral diseases in humans and vertebrate animals, including antiviral drugs, antibodies, host-response modifiers, new drug targets, animal models, drug resistance, pathogenesis, safety...