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AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0889-2229Verify ISSN ↗1931-8405Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 207 / 361 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Virology | 58 / 86 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Immunology | 177 / 243 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.9.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses is Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 207 of 361), Q3 in Virology (rank 58 of 86) and Q3 in Immunology (rank 177 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.516, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 100.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0889-2229 and its online ISSN is 1931-8405.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses has an h-index of 128 and a 2-year mean of 1.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #210 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 188. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (44.9%), United States (27.4%) and India (3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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