What are the best journals for Infectious Diseases?

From a 17,782-venue index, the highest-ranked Infectious Diseases journals include MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, The Lancet Microbe, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, EClinicalMedicine, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. The top 40 of 203 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

How were these Infectious Diseases journals ranked?

By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Infectious Diseases come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Infectious Diseases — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Infectious Diseases — is listed after all the others. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Why don't all Infectious Diseases journals show a quartile?

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

How do I find the best journal for my specific Infectious Diseases paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

Infectious Diseases · 203 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Infectious Diseases

The top 40 of 203 Infectious Diseases journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Infectious Diseases is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,782-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Match journals to your paper →

All Best open-access journals

1
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
17.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
2
The Lancet Microbe
11.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
3
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
10.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
4
EClinicalMedicine
10.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
5
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
6
PLoS Medicine
7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of Science
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
7
Emerging Microbes & Infections
6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
8
npj Vaccines
6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
9
Emerging infectious diseases
5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
10
The Lancet HIV
5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
11
Communications Medicine
5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
12
Infectious Diseases and Therapy
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Adis, Springer Healthcare
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
13
Virus Evolution
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · University of Oxford
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
14
Virulence
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
15
Reviews in Medical Virology
4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
16
BioScience Trends
4.6 cites/paper · Q1
Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
17
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
18
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
19
mSphere
4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
20
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
21
ACS Infectious Diseases
4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
22
Clinical Microbiology and Infection
4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
23
Viruses
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
24
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
25
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
26
Vaccines
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
27
Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy
3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
28
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
DOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
29
The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
30
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
31
Pathogens
3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
32
Veterinary Research
3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
33
Infection and Immunity
3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
34
Microbiology Spectrum
3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
35
Diseases
3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
36
Journal of Infection and Public Health
3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
37
Journal of the International AIDS Society
3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · International AIDS Society
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
38
Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
3.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
39
Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection
3.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
40
Current Opinion in Virology
2.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.