About this journal

Aims and scope

*Please note that Expert Review of Vaccines converted to a full Open Access journal from Volume 22 (2023). Previous volumes will continue to provide access through a Pay to Read model.

Expert Review of Vaccines (e-ISSN 1744-8395) is a MEDLINE-indexed, international journal publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research in the development, application, and clinical effectiveness of new vaccines.

The vaccine field has been transformed by recent technological advances, but there remain many challenges in the delivery of cost-effective, safe vaccines. Expert Review of Vaccines facilitates decision making to drive forward this exciting field.

The journal features cutting edge reviews and original articles on vaccines, the immune response, and the powerful impact of immunization against infectious diseases. We also cover vaccine technologies and platforms, adjuvants, therapeutic vaccines and vaccination for the control of non-communicable diseases.

Alongside review articles, the journal welcomes clinically relevant and novel original research. Pharmacoeconomic studies are considered if there is clear clinical relevance. Please note that the journal does not publish case reports, case series or animal studies. Letters to the Editor should discuss articles previously published in the journal.

Comprehensive coverage in each review is complemented by the unique Expert Collection format and includes the following sections:

Expert Opinion – a personal view of the data presented in the article, a discussion on the developments that are likely to be important in the future, and the avenues of research likely to become exciting as further studies yield more detailed results;

Article Highlights – an executive summary of the author’s most critical points.

Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the Editorial Team, it will then be double-anonymous peer-reviewed by independent, expert referees.

For any pre-submission enquiries, please contact the Commissioning Editor.

Please note, from 2023 the Print ISSN is not in active use as this journal is no longer published in print.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 535K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 5.5 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 5.4 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 9.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.030 (2023) SNIP
  • 1.412 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 34 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 55 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 14 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 51% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor in Chief

Andrew J Pollard, University of Oxford, UK

Editorial Advisory Panel

Sergio Abrignani, National Institute of Molecular Genetics, Italy

Jon Kim Andrus, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington DC, USA

Vasso Apostolopoulos, Victoria University, Melbourne

Philip M Arlen, Precision Biologics, Washington DC, USA

P Noel Barrett, Baxter BioScience, Austria

Igor Belyakov, University of Michigan, MI, USA

Warwick Britton, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

Alexander Bukreyev, University of Texas Medical Branch, TX, USA

Myron Christodoulides, University of Southampton, UK

John Clemens, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, USA

Angus G Dalgleish, St George's Hospital Medical School, UK

Ronald W Ellis, FutuRx Ltd, Israel

Gregory Glenn, Novavax, MD, USA

Michael Good, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Stephen Gordon, The Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

Stephen Hoffman, Sanaria Inc., MD, USA

Gagandeep Kang, Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Jerome H. Kim, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea

Odile Launay, Paris Descartes University, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France

Camille Locht, Institut Pasteur de Lille, France

Alex Loukas, James Cook University, Australia

Shabir Madhi, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

Elizabeth Miller, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Umesh Parashar, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Jan Poolman, Johnson & Johnson, Leiden, Netherlands

Punnee Pitisuttithum, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Stanley Plotkin,University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA 

Firdausi Qadri,ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rino Rappuoli, Novartis Vaccines, Italy

Steven G Reed, Infectious Disease Research Institute, WA, USA

Gus Rimmelzwaan, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Larisa Rudenko, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Manish Sadarangani, Vaccine Evaluation Center, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, BC, Canada

Suryaprakash Sambhara, CDC Atlanta, GA, USA

Alessandro Sette, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, CA, USA

Leonard A. Smith, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, MD, USA

De-chu Christopher Tang, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea

Ralph A Tripp, The University of Georgia, GA, USA

Takafumi Tsuboi, Ehime University, Ehime, Japan

Jeffrey Ulmer, GSK Vaccines, MD, USA

David B Weiner, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, PA, USA

Annelies Wilder-Smith, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore

Feng-Cai Zhu, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China

Patrick L.F. Zuber, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Peter Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, TX, USA

Social Media Editor

Irsida Mehmeti, Catholic University "Our Lady of Good Counsel", Tiranë, Albania

Abstracting and indexing

Expert Review of Vaccines is included in the following abstracting and indexing services:

  • Biobase
  • Chemical Abstracts
  • Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine
  • DOAJ
  • EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
  • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition®
  • MEDLINE/Index Medicus
  • Science Citation Index Expanded™ (SciSearch®)
  • Scopus

Open access

Expert Review of Vaccines is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

To publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis. Discounts and waivers may also be available for researchers in selected countries when publishing in open access journals.

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News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

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