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Discover Viruses

Publishing model:
Open access

Overview

Discover Viruses is an open access journal publishing research from all fields relevant to virology, including human, animal, plant, insect, bacterial, and fungal viruses.

  • Considers articles from a broad range of virology disciplines.
  • Topics include viral evolution, viral epidemiology, antivirals, and more.    
  • A Discover journal focused on speed of submission and review, service, and integrity.

Journal updates

  • Writing your manuscript: interactive author tutorials

    Looking to publish in a Discover journal? Springer Nature provides interactive tutorials to help you as an author write the best article possible by providing points to consider, from your background reading and study design to manuscript structuring and figure preparation. Find out more

  • Introducing In Review

    In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Viruses. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:

    • Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review 
    • Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level 
    • Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.

    See the full range of benefits of In Review and how to opt-in

    See what the In Review platform looks like 

  • Topical Collections

    The journal publishes guest-edited Topical Collections on emerging hot topics of relevance to all aspects of virology, including human, animal, plant, insect, bacterial, and fungal viruses. Our Topical Collections allow readers to quickly identify research on subject areas of particular interest to them.

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
3005-0960
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