About This Journal

Infection and Immunity focuses on host-pathogen interactions and encompasses a wide range of topics of interest to microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, pathologists, and clinicians. Areas of interest include infections caused by pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and parasites; mechanisms of pathogenicity; interactions of virulence factors with host cells; host resistance, inflammation, and susceptibility to infection; the immunology of infectious diseases; development and evaluation of vaccines against nonviral pathogens; and the genomes of pathogenic bacteria.

Sections include:

  • Instructions to Authors (January issue)
  • Spotlight
  • Commentaries
  • Minireviews
  • Molecular Pathogenesis
  • Cellular Microbiology: Pathogen-Host Cell Molecular Interactions
  • Bacterial Infections
  • Host Response and Inflammation
  • Fungal and Parasitic Infections
  • Microbial Immunity and Vaccines
  • Molecular Genomics
  • Genome Announcements

Monthly. 5,457 projected pages in 2009. Print ISSN: 0019-9567. Online ISSN: 1098-5522.

IAI has an impact factor of 3.987 and an Eigenfactor score of 0.121 according to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports. It is the #1 cited journal in Infectious Diseases and the #3 journal in Immunology, with more than 48,000 citations in 2008, as reported in the 2008 Journal Citation Reports.

IAI is ranked #10 by impact factor out of 51 journals in the Infectious Diseases category, and #27 out of 121 journals in the Immunology category.

Indexed/Abstracted: Agricola, BIOSIS, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, Current Contents, Index Medicus, EMBASE, Microbiology Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and more.