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Virulence is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Landes Bioscience.
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ISSN 2150-5594Verify ISSN ↗2150-5608Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parasitology | 6 / 82 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Infectious Diseases | 61 / 361 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 36 / 147 | 75th | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 49 / 194 | 75th | Q1 |
| Immunology | 72 / 243 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.2.
Virulence is Q1 in Parasitology (rank 6 of 82), Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 61 of 361) and Q1 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 36 of 147), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Virulence 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 7.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.632, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 109.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,557 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.
Virulence is published by Landes Bioscience. Its print ISSN is 2150-5594 and its online ISSN is 2150-5608.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Virulence has an h-index of 128 and a 2-year mean of 5.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 80 Scopus journals in Parasitology.
Virulence published 341 papers in 2025. 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 (73%), United States (5%) and Germany (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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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