Journal of General Virology explained

Discipline:Virology
Abbreviation:J. Gen. Virol.
Publisher:Microbiology Society
Country:United Kingdom
Frequency:Monthly
History:1967-present
Openaccess:Hybrid, delayed after 12 months
Impact:5.141
Impact-Year:2021
Website:https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv
Link1:https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv
Link1-Name:Online archive
Cover:Journal of General Virology (journal) cover – November 2007.gif
Issn:0022-1317
Eissn:1465-2099
Oclc:802624762
Lccn:81644163
Coden:JGVIAY

Journal of General Virology is a not-for-profit peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Microbiology Society. The journal was established in 1967 and covers research into animal, insect and plants viruses, also fungal viruses, prokaryotic viruses, and TSE agents. Antiviral compounds and clinical aspects of virus infection are also covered.[1]

Since 2020 the editor-in-chief is Paul Duprex (Centre for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh),[2] who took over from Professor Mark Harris (University of Leeds) who had served as Editor-in-Chief since 2015.[3]

Journal

Article types

Journal of General Virology publishes primary research articles, Reviews, Short Communications, Personal Views, and Editorials.

Since 2017 the journal has partnered with the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses to publish Open Access ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles which summarise chapters of the ICTV's 10th Report on Virus Taxonomy. All ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).[4]

Metrics

The Microbiology Society journals are a signatory to DORA (the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment) and use a range of Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) as well as a range of journal-level metrics to assess quality and impact. An Altmetric score and Dimensions citation data are available for all articles published by the Microbiology Society journals.[5] [6]

Abstracting and indexing

Journal of General Virology is indexed in Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Service, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, Current Contents– Life Sciences, Current Opinion series, EMBASE, MEDLINE/Index Medicus/PubMed, Russian Academy of Science, Science Citation Index, SciSearch, SCOPUS, and on Google Scholar.

Open access policy

Journal of General Virology is a hybrid title and allows authors to publish subscription articles free-of-charge. Authors can also publish Open Access articles under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY) by either paying an article processing charge (APC) or fee-free as part of a Publish and Read model.[7]

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Paul Duprex, CVR – University of Pittsburgh. cvr.pitt.edu/people/paul-duprex-phd. en. 2020-08-13.
  3. Web site: Mark Harris, University of Leeds. biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk. en. 2020-08-13.
  4. JGV ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles. microbiologyresearch.org/content/ictv-virus-taxonomy-profiles. 28 March 2017 . en. 2020-08-13.
  5. DORA Editorial. Journal of General Virology. 2019 . 10.1099/jgv.0.001191 . en. 2020-08-13 . Parish . Tanya . Harris . Mark . Fry . Norman . Mathee . Kalai . Trujillo . Martha E. . Bentley . Stephen . Thomson . Nicholas . 100 . 1 . 1–2 . 30516467 .
  6. Web site: Microbiology Society journals metrics. microbiologyresearch.org/article-journal-metrics. en. 2020-08-13.
  7. Web site: Microbiology Society Open Access. microbiologyresearch.org/publish-oa. en. 2020-08-13.