Journal of Infection

Not to be confused with Journal of Infection in Developing Countries.

Journal of Infection

Discipline	Infectious disease
Language	English
Edited by	Robert C. Read
Publication details
History	1979–present
Publisher	Saunders
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	14.3 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Infect.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
CODEN	JINFD2
ISSN	0163-4453  (print) 1532-2742  (web)
OCLC  no.	04392967
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive Journal page on publisher's website

The Journal of Infection is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of infectious disease, covering microbiology, epidemiology and clinical infectious disease medicine. Established in 1979, the journal was initially published quarterly by Academic Press. The first editor was Hillas Smith. The Journal of Infection is the official publication of the British Infection Association (formerly the British Infection Society and the British Society for the Study of Infection). Since 2006, the editor-in-chief has been Robert C. Read, an infectious disease physician and Chair of Infectious Diseases at the University of Southampton, ^{[1] [2]} and the publisher is Elsevier.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Academic OneFile ^[3]
• CAB Abstracts ^[4]
• Chemical Abstracts ^[5]
• CINAHL ^[6]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences ^[7]
• Elsevier BIOBASE ^[3]
• Embase ^[3]
• Global Health ^[8]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed ^[9]
• Science Citation Index ^[7]
• Scopus ^[3]
• Tropical Diseases Bulletin ^[10]

In 2023, the Journal Citation Reports indicated that the Journal of Infection had an impact factor of 14.3 and a Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) of 2.80, with nearly 14,000 article citations that year. ^[11] In the "Infectious Diseases" category, the Journal of Infection was ranked third based on its impact factor, with Lancet Infectious Diseases and Lancet Microbe ranking higher.

References

1. "Professor Robert Read". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved October 28, 2024.
2. "Professor Rob Read". UHS Health Research. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
3. "Journal of Infection" . Ulrichsweb . Retrieved 2014-12-29.
4. "Serials cited". CAB Abstracts . CABI . Retrieved 2014-12-29.
5. "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service . American Chemical Society . Retrieved 2014-12-29.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
6. "CINAHL Complete Database Coverage List". CINAHL . EBSCO Information Services . Retrieved 2014-12-29.
7. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
8. "Serials cited". Global Health . CABI . Retrieved 2014-12-29.
9. "The Journal of Infection". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2014-12-29.
10. "Serials cited". Tropical Diseases Bulletin . CABI . Retrieved 2014-12-29.
11. "2023 Journal Impact Factor". Journal Citation Reports . Clarivate. 2024.

Further reading

• Read, RC; Friedland, JS (January 2009). "30 years on: The continuing evolution of our journal and our society". Journal of Infection. 58 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2008.12.011.

External links

• Official website
• British Infection Association