Viruses — Open Access Journal

Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915; CODEN: VIRUBR), an open access journal of virology, is published by MDPI online monthly.
  • Open Access - free for readers, with publishing fees paid by authors or their institutions.
  • High visibility: indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), PubMed and other databases. Full-text available in PubMed Central.
  • Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and published within 43 days (average Jan-Dec 2012), accepted papers are immediately published online.
  • Editorial Section highlighting important developments to a broad audience of virologists and written by leading experts in the field.
Impact Factor: 2.509 (2012); 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.435 (2012)

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Viruses Editorial Office
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E-Mail: viruses@mdpi.com
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Forthcoming Special Issues

Section: Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protoza

Plant Viruses (Guest Editor: Henryk Czosnek)

Section: Animal Viruses

Advances in Filovirus Research 2013 (Guest Editor: Jens H. Kuhn)
Animal Arteriviruses and Coronaviruses (Guest Editor: Xiuqing Wang)
HIV Latency (Guest Editor: Fatah Kashanchi)
Recent CMV Research (Guest Editor: Anamaris Colberg-Poley)
Viruses and Tetraspanins (Guest Editor: Markus Thali)
Viruses and the Ubiquitin/Proteasome System (Guest Editor: Matthew Weitzman)
West Nile Virus (Guest Editors: Michael Diamond, Ted Pierson)

Section: Prions

Recent Developments in the Prion Field (Guest Editors: Judd Aiken, Debbie McKenzie)

Not assigned to a section

Adenoviral Vectors (Guest Editor: David Curiel)
Gene Therapy for Retroviral Infections (Guest Editors: Irvin Chen, Dong Sung An)
Giant Viruses (Guest Editor: Jean-Michel Claverie)
Hantaviruses (Guest Editors: Heinz Feldmann, David Safronetz)
Hypoxia and Viruses (Guest Editor: Jane McKeating)
Phage Display in Virus Research (Guest Editor: Xiaofeng Ren)
Recent Progress in EBV Research (Guest Editor: Eric Johannsen)
Systems Virology (Guest Editor: James Pipas)
Viral Glycoprotein Incorporation (Guest Editors: Marc Johnson, Shan-Lu Liu)
Viral Nuclear Import (Guest Editors: Ariberto Fassati, Aksana Labokha)
Viral-bacterial Interactions (Guest Editor: Jane McKeating)
Virus Dynamics Running Collection (Guest Editor: Viktor Müller)
Viruses and miRNAs (Guest Editor: Andrew Rice)
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