Journal of Medical Virology

The Journal of Medical Virology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering fundamental and applied research concerning viruses which affect humans. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell and was established in 1977. The current editor-in-chief is Shou-Jiang (SJ) Gao (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Hillman Cancer Center Cancer Virology Program).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Abstracts in Anthropology

• AGRICOLA

• Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts

• Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences

• Biological Abstracts

• BIOSIS Previews

• CAB Abstracts

• CAB HEALTH

• Chemical Abstracts Service

• CSA Biological Sciences Database

• CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database

• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine

• Current Contents/Life Sciences

• EMBASE

• Global Health

• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed

• Index Veterinarius

• Neurosciences Abstracts

• PASCAL

• Science Citation Index

• Scopus

• VINITI Database RAS According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 20.693, ranking it 2nd out of 37 journals in the "Virology" category.