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BMC Infectious Diseases

BMC Infectious Diseases does not make editorial decisions based on the perceived interest or potential impact of a study. Manuscripts are considered for publication if they are scientifically valid. For research articles, this includes having a clearly defined and sound research question, appropriate methodology and analysis, and adherence to community-agreed standards relevant to the field.

Aim and Scope

BMC Infectious Diseases is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis, and management of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases in humans and animals, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.

Benefits of publishing with BMC

High visibility

BMC Infectious Diseases’ open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.

Speed of publication

BMC Infectious Diseases offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form and as a formatted PDF.

Flexibility

Online publication in BMC Infectious Diseases allows you to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in BMC Infectious Diseases are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be highlighted on BMC Infectious Diseases’ pages and on the BMC homepage.

In addition, articles published in BMC Infectious Diseases may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in BMC Infectious Diseases.

Copyright As an author of an article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, you retain the copyright of your article, and you are free to reproduce and disseminate your work. For further information, see our guide to licensing, copyright, and author rights.