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Infectious Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2097-0684Verify ISSN ↗2772-431XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 81 / 361 | 77th | Q1 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (all) | 16 / 63 | 75th | Q1 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 45 / 147 | 69th | Q2 |
| Immunology and Allergy | 81 / 234 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Infectious Medicine is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 81 of 361), Q1 in Immunology and Microbiology (all) (rank 16 of 63) and Q2 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 45 of 147), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Infectious Medicine 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.056, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
Infectious Medicine is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 2097-0684 and its online ISSN is 2772-431X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Infectious Medicine has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 3.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Infectious Medicine published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 48. 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 (57%), United States (7.2%) and Iran (5.6%). 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. 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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