Journal of Virology

The Journal of Virology ( JVI ) is a scientific journal that is published monthly since 1967 by the American Society for Microbiology. Currently it appears twice a month; in 2008 included all expenses 14,300 pages. Editor in Chief 's Lynn W. Enquist.

Subject areas of the journal are viruses of bacteria, plants and animals. The JVI is one of the most important journals in the field of virology. In 2005, the impact factor was 5.178; in 2012 determined the Institute for Scientific Information in its Journal Citation Reports a value of 5.076, so the magazine took 5th place among 34 journals in the category of virology.