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Infection and Immunity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Society for Microbiology.
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ISSN 0019-9567Verify ISSN ↗1098-5522Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasitology | 15 / 82 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Infectious Diseases | 95 / 361 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Microbiology | 80 / 194 | 59th | Q2 |
| Immunology | 106 / 243 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Infection and Immunity is Q1 in Parasitology (rank 15 of 82), Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 95 of 361) and Q2 in Microbiology (rank 80 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Infection and Immunity 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.171, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 257.
Infection and Immunity is published by American Society for Microbiology. Its print ISSN is 0019-9567 and its online ISSN is 1098-5522.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Infection and Immunity has an h-index of 336 and a 2-year mean of 3.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 80 Scopus journals in Parasitology.
Infection and Immunity published 176 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 358. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (74.2%), China (4%) and India (3.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 43 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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