The Journal of Infection is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of infectious disease, covering microbiology, epidemiology and clinical infectious disease medicine. Established in 1979, the journal was initially published quarterly by Academic Press. The first editor was Hillas Smith. The "Journal of Infection" is the official publication of the British Infection Association (formerly the British Infection Society and the British Society for the Study of Infection). Since 2006, the editor-in-chief has been Robert C. Read, an infectious disease physician and Chair of Infectious Diseases at the University of Southampton, and the publisher is Elsevier.
Abstracting and indexing.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
In 2023, the "Journal Citation Reports" indicated that the "Journal of Infection" had an impact factor of 14.3 and a Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) of 2.80, with nearly 14,000 article citations that year. In the "Infectious Diseases" category, the "Journal of Infection" was ranked third based on its impact factor, with "Lancet Infectious Diseases" and "Lancet Microbe" ranking higher. 
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