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Viral Immunology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0882-8245Verify ISSN ↗1557-8976Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virology | 55 / 86 | 36th | Q3 |
| Immunology | 172 / 243 | 29th | Q3 |
| Molecular Medicine | 139 / 179 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present (also 1987), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.
Viral Immunology is Q3 in Virology (rank 55 of 86), Q3 in Immunology (rank 172 of 243) and Q4 in Molecular Medicine (rank 139 of 179), by CiteScore 2025.
Viral Immunology 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 3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 36th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.438, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 73.
Viral Immunology is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0882-8245 and its online ISSN is 1557-8976.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Viral Immunology has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 85 Scopus journals in Virology.
Viral Immunology published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 110. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (29.4%), Iran (15.5%) and United States (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (2.2 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.
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