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VirusDisease is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2347-3517Verify ISSN ↗2347-3584Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$2,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 185 / 361 | 48th | Q3 |
| Virology | 53 / 86 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.3.
VirusDisease is Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 185 of 361) and Q3 in Virology (rank 53 of 86), by CiteScore 2025.
VirusDisease is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.433, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 42.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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.
VirusDisease is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 2347-3517 and its online ISSN is 2347-3584.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
VirusDisease has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 1.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #193 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
VirusDisease published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 106. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (66.8%), Iran (3.5%) and South Africa (2.8%). 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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