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Virologica Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS SCIE. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 1674-0769Verify ISSN ↗1995-820XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
Cost to publish: About US$1,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 60 / 361 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Virology | 20 / 86 | 77th | Q1 |
| Immunology | 68 / 243 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Molecular Medicine | 56 / 179 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
Virologica Sinica is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 60 of 361), Q1 in Virology (rank 20 of 86) and Q2 in Immunology (rank 68 of 243), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Virologica Sinica 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.201, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 54.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,500 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.
Virologica Sinica is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 1674-0769 and its online ISSN is 1995-820X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Virologica Sinica has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 2.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #106 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Virologica Sinica published 116 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 144. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (89.1%), Netherlands (2.1%) and Hong Kong SAR China (1.5%). 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. 4 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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