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Best Infectious Diseases journals

359 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Infectious Diseases. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 90 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Reviews Microbiology 124 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Immunity 44.9 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 The Lancet Infectious Diseases 39.2 99th Q1 SCIE No
4 Cellular and Molecular Immunology 33.9 99th Q1 SCIE No
5 Drug Resistance Updates 29.1 98th Q1 SCIE No
6 Clinical Microbiology Reviews 28.9 98th Q1 SCIE No
7 FEMS Microbiology Reviews 26 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
8 Trends in Microbiology 25.9 97th Q1 SCIE No
9 The Lancet Microbe 24.8 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
10 Gut Microbes 19.5 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
11 The Lancet HIV 18.9 97th Q1 SCIE No
12 Reviews in Medical Virology 17.4 96th Q1 SCIE No
13 Clinical Infectious Diseases 17.1 96th Q1 SCIE No
14 Clinical Microbiology and Infection 17.1 96th Q1 SCIE No
15 Current Opinion in Microbiology 14.9 95th Q1 SCIE No
16 Emerging Microbes and Infections 14.1 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
17 The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 13.8 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
18 Eurosurveillance 13.6 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
19 Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology 13.2 94th Q1 SCIE No
20 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 12.8 94th Q1 SCIE No
21 British Journal of Biomedical Science 12.7 94th Q1 SCIE Yes
22 Experientia Supplementum (2012) 12 94th Q1 No
23 Tumour Virus Research 10.5 93th Q1 ESCI Yes
24 Antibiotics 10.2 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
25 Infectious Diseases of Poverty 10.2 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
26 Trends in Parasitology 10.2 92th Q1 SCIE No
27 Journal of Infection 10.1 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
28 Mycology 10 92th Q1 ESCI Yes
29 Journal of Medical Virology 9.9 92th Q1 SCIE No
30 npj Vaccines 9.8 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
31 Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 9.6 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
32 Emerging Infectious Diseases 9.5 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
33 Immune Network 9.3 90th Q1 SCIE No
34 Infectious Diseases and Therapy 9.3 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
35 Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy 9.1 90th Q1 SCIE No
36 International Journal of Infectious Diseases 9.1 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
37 Journal of Infectious Diseases 8.8 89th Q1 SCIE No
38 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 8.8 89th Q1 SCIE Yes
39 Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology 8.7 89th Q1 No
40 The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia 8.7 89th Q1 ESCI Yes
41 Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 8.4 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
42 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 8.3 88th Q1 SCIE No
43 Current Research in Microbial Sciences 8.2 88th Q1 ESCI Yes
44 Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity 8.2 87th Q1 ESCI Yes
45 Journal of Oral Microbiology 8.2 87th Q1 SCIE Yes
46 Helicobacter 8 87th Q1 SCIE No
47 Infectious Disease Clinics of North America 8 87th Q1 SCIE No
48 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 8 86th Q1 SCIE No
49 Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 8 86th Q1 ESCI No
50 Current HIV/AIDS Reports 8 86th Q1 SCIE No
51 Retrovirology 7.9 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
52 Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection 7.8 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
53 Journal of Infection and Public Health 7.7 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
54 Vaccines 7.7 85th Q1 SCIE Yes
55 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 7.6 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
56 Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses 7.6 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
57 Viruses 7.6 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
58 Microbiology Spectrum 7.5 84th Q1 SCIE Yes
59 Infection 7.4 83th Q1 SCIE No
60 Virologica Sinica 7.3 83th Q1 SCIE No
61 Virulence 7.2 83th Q1 SCIE Yes
62 Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 7.1 82th Q1 SCIE Yes
63 Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases 7 82th Q1 SCIE No
64 Pathogens and Global Health 7 82th Q1 SCIE No
65 Journal of Clinical Virology 6.9 82th Q1 SCIE No
66 Journal of the International AIDS Society 6.8 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
67 Mycoses 6.7 81th Q1 SCIE No
68 Pathogens 6.7 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
69 Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 6.6 81th Q1 SCIE No
70 ACS Infectious Diseases 6.5 80th Q1 SCIE No
71 Hepatology Research 6.5 80th Q1 SCIE No
72 One Health 6.5 80th Q1 SCIE Yes
73 Journal of Travel Medicine 6.5 79th Q1 SCIE No
74 Gut Pathogens 6.4 79th Q1 SCIE Yes
75 Vaccine 6.4 79th Q1 SCIE No
76 Pathogens and Disease 6.3 79th Q1 No
77 Frontiers in Fungal Biology 6.3 78th Q1 ESCI Yes
78 PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 6.3 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
79 Parasites and Vectors 6.2 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
80 AIDS Patient Care and STDs 6.2 77th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
81 Infectious Medicine 6.2 77th Q1 ESCI Yes
82 Virus Research 6.2 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
83 Microbial Risk Analysis 6.1 77th Q1 SCIE No
84 International Journal for Parasitology 6.1 76th Q1 SCIE No
85 Virology Journal 6.1 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
86 Current Fungal Infection Reports 6 76th Q1 ESCI No
87 Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 6 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
88 Current Infectious Disease Reports 5.9 75th Q1 SCIE No
89 Microbial Pathogenesis 5.9 75th Q1 SCIE No
90 Open Forum Infectious Diseases 5.9 75th Q1 SCIE Yes
91 Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS 5.8 74th Q2 SCIE No
92 Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 5.8 74th Q2 SCIE No
93 International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance 5.8 74th Q2 SCIE Yes
94 Journal of Hospital Infection 5.8 74th Q2 SCIE No
95 Infection and Immunity 5.7 73th Q2 SCIE Yes
96 Biosafety and Health 5.6 73th Q2 ESCI Yes
97 HIV Medicine 5.6 73th Q2 SCIE No
98 Advances in Virus Research 5.6 72th Q2 No
99 Anaerobe 5.6 72th Q2 SCIE No
100 Infection and Drug Resistance 5.6 72th Q2 SCIE Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Infectious Diseases Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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