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Frontiers in Virology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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ISSN 2673-818XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 158 / 361 | 56th | Q2 |
| Virology | 43 / 86 | 50th | Q2 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 75 / 134 | 44th | Q3 |
| Microbiology | 119 / 194 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Frontiers in Virology is Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 158 of 361), Q2 in Virology (rank 43 of 86) and Q3 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 75 of 134), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Frontiers in Virology is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.559, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,353 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.
Frontiers in Virology is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2673-818X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Virology has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 2.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #125 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Frontiers in Virology published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 107. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (20.4%), India (12%) and China (10.5%).
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.
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