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Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
DisciplineInfectious Diseases
LanguageEnglish
Edited byS Ragnar Norrby - Stockholm, Sweden
Publication details
Publisher
Informa Healthcare
no
1.678 (2008)
ISO 4Find out here
Indexing
ISSN0036-5548 (print)
1651-1980 (web)
Links
  • [www.informahealthcare.com/sjid Journal homepage]

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases is an academic journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed articles on clinical and microbiological aspects of infectious diseases.

Core Topics

  • clinical aspects of infectious diseases
  • laboratory investigations of clinical significance (bacteriological, virological, parasitological, mycological, immunological, pathological, physiological, chemical and pharmacological)
  • epidemiological and epizootological studies of human infections
  • experimental infections

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases is published by Informa Healthcare, a trading division in Informa plc (LSE: INF) which is a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company, with offices in more than 40 countries and more than 10,000 employees.[1] The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.[2]

Editor-in-Chief

S Ragnar Norrby, Ph.D., is the Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases[3]. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Vaccine Institute, and was the Director-General of The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) until June 2009. He has also acted as the Chairman of The Swedish Society of Medicine and served as Professor at Lund University between 1988 and 2000.

Impact Factor

The 2008 Impact Factor for the Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases is 1.678. The 2008 Impact Factor was 38.79% increase on the 2007 Impact Factor of 1.209.

Publication Format

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases publishes 12 issues per year in simultaneous print and online editions and is available on a subscription basis. Individual articles can be purchased on a pay-per-view basis. The full text of all articles is offered in PDF and PDF Plus formats. All back-issues of the journal are available online and are hosted on the publisher's website.

Subscribers to the electronic edition of Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases receive access to the online archive, which dates back to 1984, as part of their subscription.


References

  1. ^ >"Informa's global locations". informa.com. Retrieved 2006-01-01.
  2. ^ >"FTSE 250". londonstockexchange.com. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  3. ^ >"Editorial Board Members". informahealthcare.com. Retrieved 2009-09-29.

External links

  • Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases homepage of Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Informa Healthcare homepage of Informa Healthcare, the division of Informa that publishes Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Informa UK Ltd Informa plc is an international provider of specialist information and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business communities.