Infection (journal)

Infection is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It covers research on infectious diseases, including etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment in outpatient and inpatient settings.

Types of articles
The journal publishes original research articles, brief reports, review articles, and case reports.

Societies
Infection is the official publication of the following societies:
 * German Society for Infectious Diseases
 * Paul Ehrlich Society
 * German Sepsis Society
 * Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

In addition, the journal collaborates with:
 * European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
 * European Society of Chemotherapy Infectious Diseases
 * Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Academic OneFile

• AGRICOLA

• Biological Abstracts

• BIOSIS Previews

• CAB Abstracts

• Chemical Abstracts Service

• CINAHL

• Current Contents/Life Sciences

• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine

• Elsevier Biobase

• EMBASE

• INIS Atomindex

• PubMed/MEDLINE

• Science Citation Index

• Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 2. 3.553.