Infectious Diseases · 141 journals ranked · top 40 listed
Best open-access journals for Infectious Diseases
The top 40 of 141 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 17,500-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 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.
- 1Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy50.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer NatureOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 2MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report19.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and PreventionOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 8The Lancet Regional Health - Europe8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 9PLoS Medicine8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of ScienceOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 10Emerging Microbes & Infections7.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 13Infectious Diseases of Poverty6.7 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 14Emerging infectious diseases6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Centers for Disease Control and PreventionOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 15Communications Medicine6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 17Infectious Diseases and Therapy5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Adis, Springer HealthcareOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 18Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 19Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 21Viruses4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 22Vaccines4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 23The Lancet Regional Health - Americas4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 24The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 25Diseases4.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 26Journal of Infection and Public Health3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 27Microbiology Spectrum3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for MicrobiologyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 28Journal of the International AIDS Society3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · International AIDS SocietyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 29Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 30PLOS Global Public Health3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Public Library of ScienceOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 31Journal of Microbiology Immunology and Infection3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 32BMC Infectious Diseases3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 33Epidemiology and Health2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Korean Society of EpidemiologyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 34International Journal of Medical Microbiology2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 35International Journal of Infectious Diseases2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 36International Health1.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University PressOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 37Open Forum Infectious Diseases1.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University PressOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 38Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 40Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for MicrobiologyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb 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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