Viruses — Open Access Virology Journal

Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915; CODEN: VIRUBR) is an open access journal of virology published monthly online by MDPI.

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 41 days (average Jan-Jun 2013), 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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Forthcoming Special Issues

Section: Antivirals & Vaccines

Virus-based Vaccines (Guest Editors: Polly Roy, Charles Russell)

Section: Animal Viruses

Advances in Filovirus Research 2014 (Guest Editor: Jens H. Kuhn)
AIDS Vaccine 2014 (Guest Editor: Feng Gao)
Endogenous Viruses (Guest Editor: Welkin Johnson)
HIV Drug Resistance (Guest Editor: Karen Anderson)
HIV Latency (Guest Editor: Fatah Kashanchi)
Morbillivirus Infections (Guest Editor: Rik de Swart)
Small Ruminant Lentiviruses (Guest Editors: Esperanza Gómez-Lucía, Brian Murphy, Ana Domenech)
Viral Glycoprotein Incorporation (Guest Editors: Marc Johnson, Shan-Lu Liu)
Viral Infections of the CNS (Guest Editors: Michel Brahic, Daniel Gonzalez-Dunia)
Viruses and Bats (Guest Editor: Patrick Woo)
Viruses and the Ubiquitin/Proteasome System (Guest Editor: Matthew Weitzman)

Section: Insect Viruses

Impact of the Insect Microbiome on Arbovirus Transmission (Guest Editors: Robert Tesh, Bethany Bolling, Scott Weaver, Nikolaos Vasilakis)
Interactions between Arboviruses and Arthropod Vectors (Guest Editor: Rollie Clem)

Section: Prions

Feature Papers Prions (Associate Editor: Byron Caughey)
Recent Developments in the Prion Field (Guest Editors: Judd Aiken, Debbie McKenzie)

Not assigned to a section

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology of Viruses (Guest Editor: Viktor Müller)
Electron Microscopy in Virus Diagnostics and Research (Guest Editor: Michael Laue)
Giant Viruses (Guest Editor: Jean-Michel Claverie)
Humoral Responses Against HCV (Guest Editor: François-Loïc Cosset)
Hypoxia and Viruses (Guest Editor: Jane McKeating)
Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (Guest Editor: Zhi-Ming Zheng)
Phage Display in Virus Research (Guest Editor: Xiaofeng Ren)
Retroviral Vectors (Guest Editor: Axel Rethwilm)
Ubiquitination/Deubiquitination in Viral Infection (Guest Editor: Laurent Coscoy)
Viral-bacterial Interactions (Guest Editor: Jane McKeating)
Virus Maturation (Guest Editors: Charles Brooks, Eric May)

Topical Collections

Current Threats and Findings in Virology

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