The Journal of Infectious Diseases

The Journal of Infectious Diseases is a peer-reviewed biweekly medical journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. It covers research on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases, on the microbes that cause them, and on immune system disorders. Cynthia Sears, an expert on gut infections, was appointed editor-in-chief in 2023.

The journal was established in 1904 and was a quarterly until 1969 when it became a monthly. In 2001, it began biweekly publication. From 1904 to 2011, the journal was published by the University of Chicago Press.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.226.

Past editors-in-chief

For volumes 1 through 226, the editors-in-chief were:

• 1904–1936 Ludvig Hektoen & Edwin O. Jordan (Volumes 1–59)
• 1937–1940 Ludvig Hektoen & William H. Taliaferro (Volumes 60–67)
• 1941–1957 William H. Taliaferro (Volumes 68–100)
• 1957–1960 William H. Taliaferro & James W. Moulder (Volumes 101–106)
• 1960–1968 James W. Moulder (Volumes 107–118)
• 1969–1979 Edward H. Kass (Volumes 119–139)
• 1979–1983 George Gee Jackson (Volumes 140–148)
• 1984–1988 Martha Dukes Yow (Volumes 149–158)
• 1989–2002 Marvin Turck (Volumes 159–186)
• 2003-2022 Martin S. Hirsch (Volumes 187-226)

References

Further reading

• Hirsch, Martin (2003). "The Journal of Infectious Diseases: 99 years and counting". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 187 (1): 1. doi:10.1086/345877.
• Hirsch, Martin (2004). "Happy birthday to us!! JID reaches 100". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 189 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1086/379742. PMID 14702145.

External links

• Official website

1. Infectious Diseases (journal)
2. Emerging Infectious Diseases (journal)
3. Emerging infectious disease
4. List of infectious diseases
5. Infectious diseases (medical specialty)
6. Human metapneumovirus
7. Clinical Infectious Diseases
8. List of epidemics and pandemics
9. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
10. African Journal of Infectious Diseases
11. Eradication of infectious diseases
12. Infectious mononucleosis
13. Marburg virus disease
14. Infection
15. Open Forum Infectious Diseases
16. Vaginal flora
17. Infectious Diseases Society of America
18. Notifiable disease
19. Lyme disease
20. Journal of Global Infectious Diseases