Article types Journal of General Virology publishes primary research articles, Reviews, Short Communications, Personal Views, and Editorials. Since 2017 the journal has partnered with the
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses to publish
Open Access ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles which summarise chapters of the ICTV's 10th Report on Virus Taxonomy. All ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles are published under a
Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).
Metrics The
Microbiology Society journals are a signatory to DORA (the
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment) and use a range of
Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) as well as a range of journal-level metrics to assess quality and impact. An
Altmetric score and Dimensions citation data are available for all articles published by the Microbiology Society journals.
Abstracting and indexing Journal of General Virology is indexed in
Biological Abstracts,
BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts,
Chemical Abstracts Service, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences,
Current Contents– Life Sciences, Current Opinion series,
EMBASE,
MEDLINE/Index Medicus/PubMed, Russian Academy of Science, Science Citation Index, SciSearch, SCOPUS, and on Google Scholar. == Open access policy ==