Journal of microbiology, epidemiology and immunobiology
The Journal is published on behalf of the Russian scientific and practical society of epidemiologists, microbiologists and parasitologists.
This Platinum Open Access peer-reviewed Journal intends to publish the cutting edge research results focused on control of spread, prevention and treatment of human infectious diseases in the field of medical microbiology, virology, epidemiology, immunology including immunodiagnostics and immunoprophylaxis.
The Journal covers the issues of human infectious diseases from the point of research of pathogen — bacteria, viruses and prions in relationship to the human immune response, intra- and interspecific interaction, environment, as well as related evolutionary processes and public health.
The Journal is intended for professionally interested physicians, epidemiologists, researchers, university lecturers, postgraduates and students.
The Journal accepts for publication Russian and foreign original research articles, reviews, short communications, mini reviews, opinion and other special featured articles as well as lectures, methodological materials related to its profile.
All papers are subject to mandatory double-blind review.
The Journal does not charge authors any fees.
The Journal is admitted to the index of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals intended for publication of key research results of MD Theses, as recommended by the Higher Commission of the Russian Ministry of Education and science.
Certified scientific specialties:
- 03.02.02 Virology (medical and biological sciences)
- 03.02.03 Microbiology (medical and biological sciences)
- 14.02.02 Epidemiology (medical and biological sciences)
- 14.03.09 Clinical immunology, Allergology (medical and biological sciences).
In accordance with the recommendations of the Higher Attestation Commission (Letter of the Higher Attestation Commission dated December 06, 2022 No. 02-1198), the Journal belongs to the K1 category, as a publication included in the SCOPUS and RSCI databases.
The Journal follows the ICMJE's Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.
The Journal is presented in the following online sci-hub libraries and abstract and citation databases:
- SCOPUS
- DOAJ
- ULRICHS PERIODICAL DIRECT
- Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI)
- Google Scholar
- CYBERLENINKA
- RUCONT
The most significant articles by the decision of the Editorial Board are published in full-text translation on the Journal's website under the same DOI as the original.
Each article of the Journal is assigned a digital object identifier — DOI (Crossref).
The content is available under the Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International, CC-BY license.
The CrossMark service is used to keep the content of the Journal up-to-date and to inform readers about changes in published articles if they occur.
The Journal uses Online First Pre-Publication — the online publication of the final version of an article that has been reviewed and accepted for publication in the Journal, without waiting for placement in a specific issue and pagination. DOI are assigned to the articles, which makes it possible to fully cite before the publication of the Journal issue.
The Editorial Board consists of 24 leading Russian and 8 foreign microbiologists, virologists, immunologists and infectious diseases doctors, including 11 full members and 6 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
All papers are subject to mandatory double-blind review.
The Journal is registered by the Federal service for supervision of communications, information technology and mass communications. Certificate of PI NOFS77-75442.
The Journal publishes regular issues bimonthly, six times per year.
Founders:
- Central Research Institute for Epidemiology
- Russian Scientific Society of Epidemiologists, Microbiologists and Parasitologists
Publisher:
- Central Research Institute for Epidemiology
Media registration certificate: ПИ № ФС 77 – 75442 from 01.04.2019