''Viruses'' is a monthly

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published by

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covering all aspects of

virology Virology is the Scientific method, scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host (biology), ...

. It was established in 2009. The

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

is Eric O. Freed (

National Cancer Institute The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...

). The journal is associated with the

American Society for Virology The American Society for Virology (ASV) is an American scientific society serving the community of researchers in virology. The organization was founded in 1981 and was the first scientific society in the world dedicated exclusively to virology. ...

, Australasian Virology Society, Brazilian Society for Virology, Canadian Society for Virology, German Society for Virology, Italian Society for Virology, Spanish Society for Virology, and Swedish Society for Virology.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as i ...

of 5.818, ranking it 10th out of 36 journals in the category "Virology". It has a Scopus CiteScore of 6.3 for 2021, ranking it 77/288 in "Infectious Diseases".

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/viruses/ Open access journals MDPI academic journals English-language journals Monthly journals Publications established in 2009 Microbiology journals