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.
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
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
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?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
- Discuss your submission with Commissioning Editor Marya Baig
Continuous publication
Associated with:
- Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy (2001 - current)
- Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy (2003 - current)
- Expert Review of Clinical Immunology (2005 - current)
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