Table 1 List of 100 infectious disease journals selected in the study

AIDS

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)

Malaria Journal

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Emerging Infectious Diseases

The Japanese Journal of Antibiotics

Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses

The AIDS Reader

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Epidemiology and Infection

Nihon Hansenbyô Gakkai zasshi (Japanese Journal of Leprosy)

Medical Mycology

AIDS Reviews

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Nihon Ishinkin Gakkai zasshi (Japanese Journal of Medical Mycology)

Microbes and Infection

American Journal of Infection Control

Expert Review of Vaccines

The Journal of Antibiotics

Microbial Drug Resistance

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Mycoses

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Genetic Vaccines and Therapy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

HIV Clinical Trials

Journal of Clinical Virology

Problemy tuberkuleza i boleznei legkikh

Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials

HIV Medicine

Journal of Communicable Diseases

Reviews in Medical Virology

Antiviral Chemistry & Chemotherapy

Human Vaccines

The Journal of Hospital Infection

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Antiviral Research

Indian Journal of Leprosy

Journal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Antiviral Therapy

Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

The Journal of Infection

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Biologicals

Infection

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Surgical Infections

BMC Infectious Diseases

Infection and Immunity

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Canada communicable disease report

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Transplant Infectious Disease

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Journal of Medical Virology

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Tropical Medicine & International Health

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Infectious Disorders Drug Targets

Wei mian yu gan ran za zhi

Tuberculosis

Clinical Microbiology reviews

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

(Journal of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection)

Tuberkuloz ve toraks

Communicable diseases intelligence

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

Journal of Vector-borne Diseases

Vaccine

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Current HIV Research

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Journal of Virological Methods

Zhonghua jie he he hu xi za zhi (Chinese Journal of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases)

Current Infectious Disease reports

International Journal of STD & AIDS

Kansenshogaku zasshi (The Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases)

Zhonghua shi yan he lin chuang bing du xue za zhi (Chinese Journal of Experimental and Clinical Virology)

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Kekkaku (Tuberculosis)

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Leprosy Review