Journal of Infection


The Journal of Infection is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of infectious disease, covering microbiology, epidemiology and clinical practice. Established in 1979, the journal was initially published quarterly by Academic Press. The first editor was Hillas Smith. The Journal of Infection is the official publication of the British Infection Association. Since 2006, the editor-in-chief has been Robert C. Read and the publisher is Elsevier.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 4.603, ranking it 14th out of 88 journals in the category "Infectious Diseases".