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Advances in Virus Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.6). Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 0065-3527Verify ISSN ↗1557-8399Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 98 / 361 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Virology | 30 / 86 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present (also 1976–1979, 1972–1974, 1967–1970, 1957–1965, 1953–1955), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.6.
Advances in Virus Research is Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 98 of 361) and Q2 in Virology (rank 30 of 86), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Virus Research 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 5.6, quartile Q2, 72nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.616, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 112.
Advances in Virus Research is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0065-3527 and its online ISSN is 1557-8399.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Virus Research has an h-index of 144 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #218 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Advances in Virus Research published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 42. 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.
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.
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