What are the best journals for Infectious Diseases?

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Infectious Diseases journals include Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, EClinicalMedicine, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Lancet Microbe. The top 40 of 232 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 · 232 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Infectious Diseases

The top 40 of 232 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 17,500-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).

Data as of 15 November 2026 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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All Best open-access journals

1
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
50.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
2
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
19.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
3
EClinicalMedicine
12.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
4
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
12.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
5
The Lancet Microbe
11.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
6
EBioMedicine
10.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
7
The Innovation
9.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
8
Heliyon
9.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
9
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
10
PLoS Medicine
8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of Science
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
11
Emerging Microbes & Infections
7.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
12
Journal of Infection
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
13
npj Vaccines
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
14
Infectious Diseases of Poverty
6.7 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
15
Emerging infectious diseases
6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
16
Communications Medicine
6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
17
Clinical Infectious Diseases
6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
18
The Lancet HIV
5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
19
Virulence
5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
20
Infectious Diseases and Therapy
5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Adis, Springer Healthcare
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
21
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
22
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
23
Biomedical Journal
4.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
24
Clinical Microbiology and Infection
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
25
Viruses
4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
26
Vaccines
4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
27
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
28
The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
29
Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy
4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
30
Diseases
4.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
31
Journal of Infection and Public Health
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
32
Microbiology Spectrum
3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
33
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
34
Journal of the International AIDS Society
3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · International AIDS Society
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
35
Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
36
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
37
PLOS Global Public Health
3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of Science
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
38
Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection
3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
39
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
40
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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.