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Topics in Antiviral Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1). Published by International Antiviral Society.
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ISSN 2161-5853Verify ISSN ↗2161-5861Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Antiviral Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 157 / 361 | 56th | Q2 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 130 / 278 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Virology | 42 / 86 | 51st | Q2 |
| Pharmacology | 179 / 328 | 45th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Topics in Antiviral Medicine is Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 157 of 361), Q2 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 130 of 278) and Q2 in Virology (rank 42 of 86), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Topics in Antiviral Medicine is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2, 56th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.918, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 48.
Topics in Antiviral Medicine is published by International Antiviral Society. Its print ISSN is 2161-5853 and its online ISSN is 2161-5861.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Topics in Antiviral Medicine has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #328 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Topics in Antiviral Medicine published 86 papers in 2021. 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 10 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (85%), Switzerland (3.3%) and United Kingdom (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. 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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