Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. Current Items
Èpidemiologiâ i Infekcionnye Bolezni. Aktual’nye voprosy
ISSN 2414-9640 (Online)
ISSN 2226-6976 (Print)
THE JOURNAL IS A PUBLICATION ORGAN OF THE ACADEMICIAN
V.I. POKROVSKY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES SPECIALISTS
The medical scientific and practical journal «Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. Current issues» has been published since 2011.
The founder and first editor-in-chief of the journal is Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Valentin Ivanovich Pokrovsky.
Since 2020 the editor-in-chief of the journal has been the director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences Professor Vasily Gennadievich Akimkin
The journal is intended for a wide range of specialists, such as epidemiologists, infectiologists, pediatricians, therapists, local and family physicians, researchers, higher educators, and health administrators. It continues the best traditions of Russian science and practice.
The theme of the journal is versatile and covers all areas of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases.
The journal familiarizes practitioners with the latest scientific advances in the diagnosis, clinical presentation, and epidemiology of infectious diseases. Its articles reflect current views on the etiopathogenesis, clinical picture, current drug and non-drug treatments, prevention, and rehabilitation of infectious diseases. The journal proposes to exchange practical experience, to discuss critical problems in infectious pathology, and to enhance professional knowledge of these issues. It also discusses the topical issues of pre- and postgraduate education of physicians, such as infectiologists and epidemiologists, and the ways of improving a pedagogical process.
Scientific reviews on the most topical problems are regularly published. The journal pages provide the official information of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and an analysis of the epidemic situation in the country.
The latest editions of the Russian Recommendations for the treatment of HIV infection and related diseases, as well as for the chemoprophylaxis of HIV infection, are published annually in the journal's appendix.
The journal is aimed at a wide range of specialists: epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists, pediatricians, general practitioners, district and family doctors, researchers, university professors, and healthcare managers. It continues the best traditions of Russian science and practice.
It is included in the List of Russian peer-reviewed scientific journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for publishing the main scientific results of dissertations for the degrees of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences.
The Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation considers publications in the journal «Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. Current Issues» in the following scientific specialties:
- 3.1.22. Infectious Diseases (Medical Sciences)
- 3.2.2. Epidemiology (Medical Sciences)
Scientific reviews on the most topical problems are regularly published. The journal pages provide the official information of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and an analysis of the epidemic situation in the country.
Frequency of publication: 4 issues per year. (once a quarter).
Circulation: 5,000 copies.
The journal is distributed throughout the Russian Federation.
Access: current issue by subscription, archival issues in the public domain.
There is no fee for publishing articles.
Publication language: Russian, English.
Founder: Bionicа Media Ltd
Publisher Bionicа Media Ltd
The journalis registered by the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (ROSKOMNADZOR) PI № FC77-59439 on 18.09.2014
Two-year impact factor of the RSCI 2024: 0.680
Ten-year Hirsch index of the RSCI 2024: 16
Journal page in the RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/title_profile.asp?id=32626
The journal is included in the databases of EBSCO, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.
