Journal profile
Canada Communicable Disease Report
ISSN 1719-3109 · eISSN 1481-8531 · Public Health Agency of Canada · Canada
Canada Communicable Disease Report: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 17 weeks (community reports); 44 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Canada Communicable Disease Report is published by Public Health Agency of Canada. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Bacterial Infections and Vaccines and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance, together about 23.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Infectious Diseases. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The objective of CCDR is to advance the capacity to prevent, detect and mitigate the effects of infectious diseases in Canada and worldwide. Its readers include clinicians, public health professionals, researchers, teachers, students and others who are interested in infectious diseases. To do this, we publish authoritative and practical articles including surveillance reports, outbreak reports, original research, rapid communications, advisory committee statements and more.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Canada 5, United States 1, Australia 1 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Vaccine Coverage and HesitancySocial Sciences10.1%
- Bacterial Infections and VaccinesImmunology and Microbiology7.1%
- Data-Driven Disease SurveillanceMedicine6.7%
- Infection Control in HealthcareMedicine5.2%
- Influenza Virus Research StudiesMedicine5%
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchMedicine4.5%
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.4%
- HIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsMedicine4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 6OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.06OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 823 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 49 | 49 | 19 |
| 2025 | 44 | 44 | 18 |
| 2024 | 52 | 52 | 52 |
| 2023 | 61 | 61 | 64 |
| 2022 | 71 | 71 | 65 |
| 2021 | 70 | 70 | 58 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 17 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 17 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted11
- commentaryAddresses a stand-alone issue, setting forth strengths and arguments to support a point of view, as well as potential weaknesses and counter-argumentsLength not stated
- epidemiologic studyIncludes cohort and case-control studies on infectious diseases as per the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guideli…Length not stated
- eyewitness reportProvides a first-hand practice-based account and insights about the prevention, detection or management of an infectious diseaseLength not stated
- implementation scienceDescribes an innovative process, policy or program designed to monitor or decrease the impact of an infectious disease and generally includes an evaluation of h…Length not stated
- outbreak reportProvides information about an outbreak, summarizing its epidemiology, risk factors, associated morbidity and mortality, public health interventions and outcomesLength not stated
- overviewSummarizes content from many specialized articles or sources into one broadly scoped article or introduces a topic for those who may be reading about this topic…Length not stated
- qualitative studiesAnalyzes data from direct field observations, in-depth interviews and/or written documents to identify themes that generate hypotheses on complex phenomenaLength not stated
- rapid communicationProvides a short, timely and authoritative report of an emerging or re-emerging infectious disease that typically includes the results of preliminary investigat…Length not stated
- surveillance reportSummarizes the trends in the incidence or prevalence of an infectious disease in Canada and analyzes the changesLength not stated
- survey reportIdentifies "what is" in a population based on self-reports and follows the Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys (CHERRIES)Length not stated
- systematic reviewProvides a review of the literature according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA)Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship How CCDR addresses errors, competing interests and authorship changes
CCDR has a number of policies and best practices in place to deal with errors, misconduct, authorship changes and conflicts. Correction notices When an error or omission is identified following publication, the CCDR Editorial Coordinator (ccdr-rmtc@phac-aspc.gc.ca) should be notified promptly. Any changes made to the web-coded version and the PDF of published articles are identified as an Erratum …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest How CCDR addresses errors, competing interests and authorship changes
CCDR has a number of policies and best practices in place to deal with errors, misconduct, authorship changes and conflicts. Correction notices When an error or omission is identified following publication, the CCDR Editorial Coordinator (ccdr-rmtc@phac-aspc.gc.ca) should be notified promptly. Any changes made to the web-coded version and the PDF of published articles are identified as an Erratum …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Agree to a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 license
Upon submission, authors will need to agree in writing that if their submission is accepted, it will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 license. This means that the authors or their affiliated institutions will retain ownership of their copyright in the manuscript, but allow anyone to copy and redistribute the article in any medium or format, remix, transform and build u…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access policy
Open access Model summary
CCDR adheres to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) definition of open access: that users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of all articlesFootnote 1. The journal does not charge article processing charges (APCs) or submission charges and is free of charge to all readers. As of January 2019 all articles in CCDR are published under t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases. Model summary
The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Country or region
- Canada
- Language
- English, French
- ISSN
- 1719-3109
- Electronic ISSN
- 1481-8531
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 52 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Canada Communicable Disease Report
How long does peer review take at Canada Communicable Disease Report?
Authors report an average review time of about 17 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Canada Communicable Disease Report based?
Of the 7 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Canada (5), United States (1) and Australia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Canada Communicable Disease Report?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Canada Communicable Disease Report is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Canada Communicable Disease Report open access, and what is the APC?
Canada Communicable Disease Report is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .