Abbreviated title (ISO 4) J. Infect. Language English | Discipline Infectious disease Edited by Robert C. Read Publication history 1979–present | |
The Journal of Infection is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of infectious disease, covering microbiology, epidemiology and clinical practice. 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). As of 2015, the editor-in-chief is Robert C. Read (University of Sheffield, UK) and the publisher is Saunders.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 4.441, ranking it 13th out of 78 journals in the category "Infectious Diseases".