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Journal of Infection is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by W.B. Saunders Ltd.
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ISSN 0163-4453Verify ISSN ↗1532-2742Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 27 / 361 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 14 / 147 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.1.
Journal of Infection is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 27 of 361) and Q1 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 14 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Infection 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 10.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.180, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 152.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,030 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.
Journal of Infection is published by W.B. Saunders Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0163-4453 and its online ISSN is 1532-2742.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Infection has an h-index of 178 and a 2-year mean of 6.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Journal of Infection published 273 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 581. 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 China (36.1%), United Kingdom (17.7%) and France (6.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 13 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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