Retrovirology (journal)
# Retrovirology (journal)

Retrovirology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering basic research on retroviruses. The journal was established in 2004 and is published by BioMed Central. The editors-in-chief are Johnson Mak (Griffith University, Australia) and Susan Ross (University of Illinois at Chicago); earlier, Kuan-Teh Jeang was editor-in-chief.

## Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

* Biological Abstracts
* BIOSIS Previews
* Chemical Abstracts Service
* Current Contents/Life Sciences
* Embase
* EMBiology
* Global Health
* Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
* Science Citation Index
* Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 4.183, ranking it 10th out of 37 journals in the category "Virology".

