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Infectious Diseases · 122 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best open-access journals for Infectious Diseases

The top 40 of 122 Infectious Diseases journals, open-access only, 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).

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  1. 1
    MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
    17.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    The Lancet Microbe
    11.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    EClinicalMedicine
    10.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
    8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    PLoS Medicine
    7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of Science
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    Emerging Microbes & Infections
    6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    npj Vaccines
    6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    Emerging infectious diseases
    5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Communications Medicine
    5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    Infectious Diseases and Therapy
    4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Adis, Springer Healthcare
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    Virus Evolution
    4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · University of Oxford
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    Virulence
    4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    BioScience Trends
    4.6 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
    4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
    4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    mSphere
    4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
    4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Viruses
    3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
    3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    Vaccines
    3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  22. 22
    The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
    3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    Pathogens
    3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    Veterinary Research
    3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    Infection and Immunity
    3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    Microbiology Spectrum
    3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Microbiology
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    Diseases
    3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  28. 28
    Journal of Infection and Public Health
    3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    Journal of the International AIDS Society
    3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · International AIDS Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection
    3.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    PLOS Global Public Health
    2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of Science
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    BMC Infectious Diseases
    2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    International Journal of Medical Microbiology
    2.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    Infection Genetics and Evolution
    2.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    2.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    International Health
    1.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    Open Forum Infectious Diseases
    0.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
    6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    Retrovirology
    4.8 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  40. 40
    The Indian Journal of Medical Research
    4.8 cites/paper · Q2 · Medknow
    Open AccessScopusWeb 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.

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Frequently asked

MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, The Lancet Microbe, EClinicalMedicine, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, PLoS Medicine lead this list, drawn from a 17,782-venue index. The top 40 of 122 ranked venues are listed on this page; 39 are Scimago Q1 and 1 Q2. 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. Only open-access venues are included. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded. For a match to your specific paper use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

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