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Infectious Disease Reports

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · Switzerland · Est. 1981

ISSN2036-7449eISSN2036-7449

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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Medium Risk

Score Breakdown

✓ WoS ESCI+10

✓ Scopus Q2+18

✓ DOAJ Verified+15

Total53

Journal Impact Factor

This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗

SJR Score

0.709

H-Index

CiteScore

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Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIP

0.763

Total Works

860

Total Citations

9,055

2yr Mean Citedness

2.35

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Aims & Scope✦ Inferred from recent articles

This journal publishes research on infectious diseases, including bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic infections, with a focus on clinical case reports, diagnostic challenges, treatment strategies, and epidemiological surveillance. Articles cover a range of pathogens and conditions such as ventilator-associated pneumonia, granulomatous lung diseases, dirofilariasis, meningococcal disease, long COVID-19, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, necrotizing fasciitis, dengue, superficial fungal infections, multidrug-resistant organisms, Lyme disease, fungal peritonitis, measles complications, hepatitis B virus and the microbiome, and Clostridioides difficile infection.

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⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

weeks to review

Fast · median is 15 wks

SJR Rank

Top 50% in field

General Information

Country / RegionSwitzerland

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1981

Annual Volume~ 107 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications860

Publisher OrgMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

OA Since2008

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

Review Time~6 weeks

Acceptance Rate—

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

Swiss National LibraryCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/12 · 83%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2036-7449 / 2036-7449

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

Swiss National Library, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Times cited

2019

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2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Infectious DiseasesQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Infectious Diseases

Scopus Categories