Open Access
Open access

BMC Infectious Diseases

Springer Nature
Springer Nature
ISSN: 14712334
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
3.4
SJR
1.031
CiteScore
6.5
Categories
Infectious Diseases
Areas
Medicine
Years of issue
2001-2025
journal names
BMC Infectious Diseases
BMC INFECT DIS
Publications
13 980
Citations
254 553
h-index
129
Publications
5 760
Citations
150 390
Top-3 citing journals
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE (9247 citations)
BMC Infectious Diseases
BMC Infectious Diseases (7879 citations)
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports (3487 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Makerere University
Makerere University (198 publications)
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (190 publications)
Capital Medical University
Capital Medical University (105 publications)
Zhejiang University
Zhejiang University (85 publications)
Top-3 countries
China (2787 publications)
USA (2408 publications)
United Kingdom (1200 publications)
China (1546 publications)
USA (814 publications)
United Kingdom (432 publications)

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PLoS ONE
9247 citations, 3.63%
BMC Infectious Diseases
7879 citations, 3.1%
Scientific Reports
3487 citations, 1.37%
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2412 citations, 0.95%
BMC Public Health
2213 citations, 0.87%
Frontiers in Microbiology
2183 citations, 0.86%
Vaccine
2054 citations, 0.81%
Clinical Infectious Diseases
1954 citations, 0.77%
Antibiotics
1788 citations, 0.7%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
1764 citations, 0.69%
Viruses
1684 citations, 0.66%
Frontiers in Public Health
1649 citations, 0.65%
Infection and Drug Resistance
1528 citations, 0.6%
Frontiers in Immunology
1524 citations, 0.6%
Microorganisms
1516 citations, 0.6%
Pathogens
1475 citations, 0.58%
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
1452 citations, 0.57%
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
1389 citations, 0.55%
Cureus
1358 citations, 0.53%
BMJ Open
1342 citations, 0.53%
Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics
1145 citations, 0.45%
Journal of Medical Virology
1135 citations, 0.45%
Journal of Infectious Diseases
1120 citations, 0.44%
Vaccines
1116 citations, 0.44%
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
1101 citations, 0.43%
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
1100 citations, 0.43%
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
1068 citations, 0.42%
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
1025 citations, 0.4%
Clinical Microbiology and Infection
1015 citations, 0.4%
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
1013 citations, 0.4%
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
973 citations, 0.38%
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
964 citations, 0.38%
Medicine (United States)
953 citations, 0.37%
Frontiers in Medicine
925 citations, 0.36%
Epidemiology and Infection
908 citations, 0.36%
Malaria Journal
875 citations, 0.34%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
863 citations, 0.34%
Heliyon
807 citations, 0.32%
American Journal of Infection Control
804 citations, 0.32%
Journal of Hospital Infection
791 citations, 0.31%
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
764 citations, 0.3%
Journal of Clinical Medicine
764 citations, 0.3%
Emerging Infectious Diseases
755 citations, 0.3%
Journal of Infection
748 citations, 0.29%
Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy
728 citations, 0.29%
Microbiology spectrum
714 citations, 0.28%
Parasites and Vectors
699 citations, 0.27%
AIDS
696 citations, 0.27%
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
672 citations, 0.26%
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
672 citations, 0.26%
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
649 citations, 0.25%
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
639 citations, 0.25%
Journal of Medical Microbiology
634 citations, 0.25%
Infection, Genetics and Evolution
629 citations, 0.25%
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
621 citations, 0.24%
AIDS and Behavior
612 citations, 0.24%
International Journal of STD and AIDS
597 citations, 0.23%
International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
580 citations, 0.23%
BMC Research Notes
579 citations, 0.23%
Acta Tropica
551 citations, 0.22%
Tropical Medicine and International Health
551 citations, 0.22%
Virology Journal
548 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Fungi
528 citations, 0.21%
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
527 citations, 0.21%
Infection
512 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Infection and Public Health
512 citations, 0.2%
Microbial Pathogenesis
506 citations, 0.2%
Diagnostics
503 citations, 0.2%
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
502 citations, 0.2%
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
497 citations, 0.2%
BioMed Research International
497 citations, 0.2%
Expert Review of Vaccines
484 citations, 0.19%
F1000Research
481 citations, 0.19%
BMC Microbiology
473 citations, 0.19%
PLOS Global Public Health
473 citations, 0.19%
Infectious Diseases of Poverty
463 citations, 0.18%
Journal of the International AIDS Society
456 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
451 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
443 citations, 0.17%
Tuberculosis
433 citations, 0.17%
Infectious Diseases and Therapy
433 citations, 0.17%
Future Microbiology
432 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Clinical Virology
424 citations, 0.17%
BMC Health Services Research
423 citations, 0.17%
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
421 citations, 0.17%
Microbial Drug Resistance
403 citations, 0.16%
Frontiers in Pediatrics
389 citations, 0.15%
Infectious Diseases
388 citations, 0.15%
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
385 citations, 0.15%
Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses
383 citations, 0.15%
Sexually Transmitted Infections
379 citations, 0.15%
BMC Medicine
379 citations, 0.15%
BMC Pediatrics
373 citations, 0.15%
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
371 citations, 0.15%
Frontiers in Pharmacology
369 citations, 0.14%
AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
363 citations, 0.14%
Science of the Total Environment
362 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Viral Hepatitis
360 citations, 0.14%
HIV Medicine
358 citations, 0.14%
Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica
355 citations, 0.14%
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Springer Nature
47290 citations, 18.58%
Elsevier
46936 citations, 18.44%
MDPI
18687 citations, 7.34%
Wiley
15429 citations, 6.06%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
13305 citations, 5.23%
Taylor & Francis
12356 citations, 4.85%
Frontiers Media S.A.
10986 citations, 4.32%
Oxford University Press
9727 citations, 3.82%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
8849 citations, 3.48%
American Society for Microbiology
5671 citations, 2.23%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
5014 citations, 1.97%
SAGE
4207 citations, 1.65%
BMJ
3526 citations, 1.39%
Hindawi Limited
3241 citations, 1.27%
Cambridge University Press
2459 citations, 0.97%
Mary Ann Liebert
1923 citations, 0.76%
Microbiology Society
1271 citations, 0.5%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
1185 citations, 0.47%
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
1047 citations, 0.41%
JMIR Publications
986 citations, 0.39%
886 citations, 0.35%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
871 citations, 0.34%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
843 citations, 0.33%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
801 citations, 0.31%
Baishideng Publishing Group
780 citations, 0.31%
Medknow
665 citations, 0.26%
F1000 Research
635 citations, 0.25%
Research Square Platform LLC
628 citations, 0.25%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
557 citations, 0.22%
Walter de Gruyter
515 citations, 0.2%
AME Publishing Company
502 citations, 0.2%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
466 citations, 0.18%
S. Karger AG
449 citations, 0.18%
Spandidos Publications
416 citations, 0.16%
SciELO
413 citations, 0.16%
European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)
386 citations, 0.15%
IntechOpen
382 citations, 0.15%
European Respiratory Society (ERS)
378 citations, 0.15%
Scientific Research Publishing
371 citations, 0.15%
American Medical Association (AMA)
367 citations, 0.14%
354 citations, 0.14%
CSIRO Publishing
345 citations, 0.14%
AOSIS
345 citations, 0.14%
PeerJ
318 citations, 0.12%
The Royal Society
313 citations, 0.12%
American Thoracic Society
267 citations, 0.1%
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing
247 citations, 0.1%
American Academy of Pediatrics
241 citations, 0.09%
Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
230 citations, 0.09%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
219 citations, 0.09%
IOP Publishing
208 citations, 0.08%
PAGEPress Publications
204 citations, 0.08%
Tuberculosis Association of India
201 citations, 0.08%
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
192 citations, 0.08%
191 citations, 0.08%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
186 citations, 0.07%
Academic Journals
186 citations, 0.07%
IOS Press
184 citations, 0.07%
The American Association of Immunologists
184 citations, 0.07%
Mark Allen Group
177 citations, 0.07%
Brieflands
177 citations, 0.07%
Massachusetts Medical Society
176 citations, 0.07%
Akademiai Kiado
176 citations, 0.07%
Emerald
172 citations, 0.07%
Scientific Scholar
169 citations, 0.07%
EDP Sciences
155 citations, 0.06%
Veterinary World
154 citations, 0.06%
Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
148 citations, 0.06%
National Institute of Infectious Diseases
148 citations, 0.06%
Annual Reviews
147 citations, 0.06%
King Saud University
143 citations, 0.06%
Hans Publishers
140 citations, 0.05%