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Aims & Scope


Viral Immunology delivers cutting-edge peer-reviewed research on rare, emerging, and under-studied viruses, with special focus on analyzing mutual relationships between external viruses and internal immunity. Original research, reviews, and commentaries on relevant viruses are presented in clinical, translational, and basic science articles for researchers in multiple disciplines.

Viral Immunology coverage includes:

  • Human and animal viral immunology
  • Research and development of viral vaccines, including field trials
  • Immunological characterization of viral components
  • Virus-based immunological diseases, including autoimmune syndromes
  • Pathogenic mechanisms
  • Viral diagnostics
  • Tumor and cancer immunology with virus as the primary factor
  • Viral immunology methods

Viral Immunology is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief Rodney Russell, Professor of Virology and Viral Immunology, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, and other leading investigators. View the entire editorial board.

Audience: Virologists, immunologists, microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, pathologists, epidemiologists, and veterinary researchers, among others. 

Indexing/Abstracting:

  • PubMed/MEDLINE
  • PubMed Central
  • Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded™ (SCIE)
  • Scopus
  • Current Contents®/Life Sciences
  • Biological Abstracts
  • BIOSIS Citation Index™
  • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
  • EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
  • EMBiology
  • ProQuest databases
  • CAB Abstracts
  • Global Health
  • Tropical Diseases Bulletin
  • BenchSci
The views, opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations set forth in any Journal article are solely those of the authors of those articles and do not necessarily reflect the views, policy or position of the Journal, its Publisher, its editorial staff or any affiliated Societies and should not be attributed to any of them.