Open Access
Open access

Viruses

MDPI
MDPI
ISSN: 19994915
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
3.8
SJR
1.140
CiteScore
7.3
Categories
Infectious Diseases
Virology
Areas
Immunology and Microbiology
Medicine
Years of issue
2009-2025
journal names
Viruses
VIRUSES-BASEL
Publications
15 449
Citations
257 082
h-index
145
Publications
11 422
Citations
213 032
Top-3 citing journals
Viruses
Viruses (23718 citations)
Journal of Virology
Journal of Virology (5272 citations)
Frontiers in Microbiology
Frontiers in Microbiology (5155 citations)
Top-3 countries
USA (4708 publications)
China (2462 publications)
Germany (1405 publications)
USA (3167 publications)
China (1846 publications)
Germany (970 publications)

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Viruses
23718 citations, 9.23%
Journal of Virology
5272 citations, 2.05%
Frontiers in Microbiology
5155 citations, 2.01%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
5147 citations, 2%
Frontiers in Immunology
3998 citations, 1.56%
Scientific Reports
3761 citations, 1.46%
Pathogens
3322 citations, 1.29%
Vaccines
3108 citations, 1.21%
Microorganisms
2569 citations, 1%
PLoS ONE
2531 citations, 0.98%
PLoS Pathogens
2073 citations, 0.81%
Virus Research
1981 citations, 0.77%
Virology
1882 citations, 0.73%
Archives of Virology
1853 citations, 0.72%
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
1782 citations, 0.69%
Journal of Medical Virology
1648 citations, 0.64%
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
1536 citations, 0.6%
Nature Communications
1426 citations, 0.55%
Virology Journal
1348 citations, 0.52%
Microbiology spectrum
1334 citations, 0.52%
Journal of General Virology
1282 citations, 0.5%
Animals
1241 citations, 0.48%
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
1186 citations, 0.46%
Antiviral Research
1175 citations, 0.46%
mBio
1143 citations, 0.44%
Cells
1115 citations, 0.43%
Veterinary Microbiology
911 citations, 0.35%
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
893 citations, 0.35%
Molecules
862 citations, 0.34%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
811 citations, 0.32%
Antibiotics
764 citations, 0.3%
Cancers
753 citations, 0.29%
Current Opinion in Virology
729 citations, 0.28%
Infection, Genetics and Evolution
727 citations, 0.28%
Emerging Microbes & Infections
721 citations, 0.28%
Vaccine
716 citations, 0.28%
Methods in Molecular Biology
707 citations, 0.28%
Heliyon
698 citations, 0.27%
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
657 citations, 0.26%
Biomedicines
656 citations, 0.26%
Veterinary Sciences
645 citations, 0.25%
Microbial Pathogenesis
616 citations, 0.24%
iScience
579 citations, 0.23%
Journal of Infectious Diseases
570 citations, 0.22%
Virologica Sinica
563 citations, 0.22%
Frontiers in Pharmacology
561 citations, 0.22%
Virus Evolution
559 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Clinical Medicine
558 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Virological Methods
554 citations, 0.22%
Pharmaceuticals
544 citations, 0.21%
Virus Genes
522 citations, 0.2%
Fish and Shellfish Immunology
516 citations, 0.2%
Frontiers in Public Health
514 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Biological Chemistry
497 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
492 citations, 0.19%
Plants
487 citations, 0.19%
Frontiers in Plant Science
482 citations, 0.19%
Emerging Infectious Diseases
478 citations, 0.19%
BMC Infectious Diseases
478 citations, 0.19%
Veterinary Research
476 citations, 0.19%
Poultry Science
469 citations, 0.18%
Reviews in Medical Virology
469 citations, 0.18%
Cureus
458 citations, 0.18%
Nucleic Acids Research
452 citations, 0.18%
Aquaculture
449 citations, 0.17%
BMC Veterinary Research
442 citations, 0.17%
Frontiers in Medicine
440 citations, 0.17%
Life
429 citations, 0.17%
Biomolecules
422 citations, 0.16%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
414 citations, 0.16%
Pharmaceutics
413 citations, 0.16%
Cell Reports
405 citations, 0.16%
Future Virology
389 citations, 0.15%
Parasites and Vectors
388 citations, 0.15%
Virulence
383 citations, 0.15%
Retrovirology
378 citations, 0.15%
Diagnostics
377 citations, 0.15%
PeerJ
374 citations, 0.15%
Genes
365 citations, 0.14%
Annual Review of Virology
362 citations, 0.14%
Insects
359 citations, 0.14%
Advances in Virus Research
358 citations, 0.14%
Science of the Total Environment
349 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Molecular Biology
349 citations, 0.14%
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
339 citations, 0.13%
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
336 citations, 0.13%
npj Vaccines
333 citations, 0.13%
Frontiers in Oncology
319 citations, 0.12%
BMC Genomics
315 citations, 0.12%
Frontiers in Virology
315 citations, 0.12%
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
307 citations, 0.12%
Biology
305 citations, 0.12%
mSphere
304 citations, 0.12%
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
296 citations, 0.12%
eLife
291 citations, 0.11%
F1000Research
288 citations, 0.11%
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
286 citations, 0.11%
One Health
279 citations, 0.11%
Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy
279 citations, 0.11%
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
277 citations, 0.11%
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MDPI
54777 citations, 21.31%
Elsevier
46852 citations, 18.22%
Springer Nature
34600 citations, 13.46%
Frontiers Media S.A.
18502 citations, 7.2%
Wiley
15653 citations, 6.09%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
12103 citations, 4.71%
American Society for Microbiology
10801 citations, 4.2%
Taylor & Francis
7740 citations, 3.01%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
6301 citations, 2.45%
Oxford University Press
4945 citations, 1.92%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
3000 citations, 1.17%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
1778 citations, 0.69%
Microbiology Society
1622 citations, 0.63%
SAGE
1455 citations, 0.57%
Mary Ann Liebert
1436 citations, 0.56%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
1364 citations, 0.53%
Hindawi Limited
1114 citations, 0.43%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
981 citations, 0.38%
Annual Reviews
867 citations, 0.34%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
853 citations, 0.33%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
725 citations, 0.28%
Scientific Societies
593 citations, 0.23%
Baishideng Publishing Group
549 citations, 0.21%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
545 citations, 0.21%
Pleiades Publishing
525 citations, 0.2%
Walter de Gruyter
512 citations, 0.2%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
511 citations, 0.2%
IntechOpen
510 citations, 0.2%
BMJ
495 citations, 0.19%
Research Square Platform LLC
462 citations, 0.18%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
431 citations, 0.17%
Cambridge University Press
421 citations, 0.16%
PeerJ
417 citations, 0.16%
Spandidos Publications
407 citations, 0.16%
eLife Sciences Publications
382 citations, 0.15%
The Royal Society
381 citations, 0.15%
F1000 Research
337 citations, 0.13%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
293 citations, 0.11%
Portland Press
286 citations, 0.11%
Central Research Institute for Epidemiology
284 citations, 0.11%
The American Association of Immunologists
266 citations, 0.1%
Veterinary World
255 citations, 0.1%
American Society for Clinical Investigation
231 citations, 0.09%
230 citations, 0.09%
Impact Journals
206 citations, 0.08%
Medknow
198 citations, 0.08%
S. Karger AG
197 citations, 0.08%
187 citations, 0.07%
European Molecular Biology Organization
187 citations, 0.07%
IOP Publishing
186 citations, 0.07%
King Saud University
163 citations, 0.06%
SciELO
161 citations, 0.06%
Rockefeller University Press
160 citations, 0.06%
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
156 citations, 0.06%
American Physiological Society
153 citations, 0.06%
Inter-Research Science Center
145 citations, 0.06%
JMIR Publications
143 citations, 0.06%
American Medical Association (AMA)
129 citations, 0.05%
The Company of Biologists
128 citations, 0.05%
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
125 citations, 0.05%
AIP Publishing
124 citations, 0.05%
AME Publishing Company
118 citations, 0.05%
117 citations, 0.05%
Han-Gug Misaengmul Hag-hoe/The Microbiological Society of Korea
116 citations, 0.05%
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
111 citations, 0.04%
Media Sphere Publishing House
111 citations, 0.04%
SPb RAACI
106 citations, 0.04%
World Scientific
95 citations, 0.04%
EDP Sciences
95 citations, 0.04%
Canadian Science Publishing
93 citations, 0.04%
Eco-Vector LLC
91 citations, 0.04%
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE)
91 citations, 0.04%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
90 citations, 0.04%
European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)
88 citations, 0.03%
American Association of Avian Pathologists Inc.
86 citations, 0.03%
IOS Press
85 citations, 0.03%
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
85 citations, 0.03%
XMLink
80 citations, 0.03%
Science in China Press
79 citations, 0.03%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
79 citations, 0.03%
IGI Global
79 citations, 0.03%
Japanese Association of Virology
79 citations, 0.03%
OAE Publishing Inc.
73 citations, 0.03%
CSIRO Publishing
71 citations, 0.03%
American Society of Hematology
68 citations, 0.03%
PAGEPress Publications
68 citations, 0.03%
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing
67 citations, 0.03%
Scientific Research Publishing
66 citations, 0.03%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
65 citations, 0.03%
Hans Publishers
65 citations, 0.03%
European Respiratory Society (ERS)
61 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS
61 citations, 0.02%
FGI Federal Centre for Animal Health (FGI ARRIA)
57 citations, 0.02%
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
56 citations, 0.02%
Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute Microbe
56 citations, 0.02%
British Veterinary Association
53 citations, 0.02%