Current Opinion in Virology

Current Opinion in Virology is published by Elsevier BV and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Plant Virus Research Studies, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology and Viral Infections and Vectors, together about 22.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Infectious Diseases. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Please note that review articles in Current Opinion in Virology are by invitation only.Current Opinion in Virology (COVIRO) is a systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of virology. It publishes 6 issues per year covering the following 11 sections, each of which is reviewed once a year: Emerging viruses: interspecies transmission; Viral immunology; Viral pathogenesis; Preventive and therapeutic vaccines; Antiviral strategies; Virus structure and expression; Animal models for viral diseases; Engineering for viral resistance; Viruses and cancer; Virus vector interactions. There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field.Current Opinion in Virology builds on Elsevier's reputation for excellence in scientific publishing and long-standing commitment to communicating reproducible biomedical research targeted at improving human health. Expertise - Editors and Editorial Board bring depth and breadth of expertise and experience to the journal.Discoverability - Articles get high visibility and maximum exposure on an industry-leading platform that reaches a vast global audience.Selection of topics to be reviewed Section Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasised. Section Editors commission reviews from authorities on each topic that they have selected.Reviews Authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasising the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.Editorial Overview Section Editors write a short overview at the beginning of the section to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particularly interesting developments.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): VIROLOGY

Editor-in-chief Adolfo García-SastrePublisher website

Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 13%); most named United States 18, Mainland China 5, France 5, Spain 2, South Africa 2 (40 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

5.43LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

5.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

14.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

14.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

2.22LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.43LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

56LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

127OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,078OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.49OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

1.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

56.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

29LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

16 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

49 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance

79 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

21 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Country or region

NETHERLANDS

Language

English

ISSN

1879-6257

Electronic ISSN

1879-6265

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website