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Acta Virologica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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ISSN 0001-723XVerify ISSN ↗1336-2305Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 239 / 361 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Virology | 64 / 86 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1957–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
Acta Virologica is Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 239 of 361) and Q3 in Virology (rank 64 of 86), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Virologica is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3, 33rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.261, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,204 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Virologica is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its print ISSN is 0001-723X and its online ISSN is 1336-2305.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Virologica has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #162 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Acta Virologica published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 66. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 72 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (17.4%), Slovakia (16.6%) and India (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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