Infectious Diseases and Therapy is an international, open access, peer-reviewed, rapid publication journal dedicated to the publication of high-quality clinical (all phases), observational, real-world, and health outcomes research around the discovery, development, and use of infectious disease therapies and interventions, including vaccines and devices. Studies relating to diagnostic products and diagnosis, pharmacoeconomics, public health, epidemiology, quality of life, and patient care, management, and education are also encouraged.
Areas of focus include, but are not limited to, bacterial and fungal infections, viral infections (including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis), parasitological diseases, tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases, vaccinations and other interventions, and drug-resistance, chronic infections, epidemiology and tropical, emergent, pediatric, dermal and sexually-transmitted diseases.
The journal is of interest to a broad audience of pharmaceutical and healthcare professionals and publishes original research, reviews, case reports, trial protocols, short communications such as commentaries and editorials, and letters. The journal is read by a global audience and receives submissions from around the world. Infectious Diseases and Therapy will consider all scientifically sound research be it positive, confirmatory or negative data. Submissions are welcomed whether they relate to an international and/or a country-specific audience, something that is crucially important when researchers are trying to target more specific patient populations. This inclusive approach allows the journal to assist in the dissemination of all scientifically and ethically sound research.
Rapid Publication
The journal’s publication timelines aim for a rapid peer review of 2 weeks. If an article is accepted it will be published 3–4 weeks from acceptance. The rapid timelines are achieved through the combination of a dedicated in-house editorial team, who manage article workflow, and an extensive Editorial and Advisory Board who assist with peer review. This allows the journal to support the rapid dissemination of research, whilst still providing robust peer review. Combined with the journal’s open access model this allows for the rapid, efficient communication of the latest research and reviews, fostering the advancement of infectious disease therapies.
Personal Service
The journal’s dedicated in-house editorial team offer a personal “concierge service” meaning that authors will always have a personal point of contact able to update them on the status of their manuscript. The editorial team check all manuscripts to ensure that articles conform to the most recent COPE, GPP and ICMJE publishing guidelines. This supports the publication of ethically sound and transparent research. We also encourage pre-submission enquiries and are always happy to provide a confidential assessment of manuscripts.
Digital Features and Plain Language Summaries
Infectious Diseases and Therapy offers a range of additional features designed to increase the visibility, readership and educational value of the journal’s content. Each article is accompanied by key summary points, giving a time-efficient overview of the content to a wide readership. Articles may be accompanied by plain language summaries to assist readers who have some knowledge of, but not in-depth expertise in, the area to understand the scientific content and overall implications of the article. The journal also provides the option to include various types of digital features including animated abstracts, video abstracts, slide decks, audio slides, instructional videos, infographics, podcasts and animations. All additional features are peer reviewed to the same high standard as the article itself. If you consider that your paper would benefit from the inclusion of a digital feature, please let us know. Our editorial team are able to create high-quality slide decks and infographics in-house, and video abstracts through our partner Research Square, and would be happy to assist in any way we can. For further information about digital features, please contact the journal editor (see ‘Contact the Journal’ for email address), and see the ‘Guidelines for digital features and plain language summaries’ document under ‘Submission guidelines’.
Peer Review Process
Upon submission, manuscripts are assessed by the editorial team to ensure they fit within the aims and scope of the journal and are also checked for plagiarism. All suitable submissions are then subject to a comprehensive single-blind peer review. Reviewers are selected based on their relevant expertise and publication history in the subject area. The journal has an extensive pool of editorial and advisory board members who have been selected to assist with peer review based on the afore-mentioned criteria.
At least two extensive reviews are required to make the editorial decision. Where reviewer recommendations are conflicted, the editorial board will be contacted for further advice and a presiding decision. Manuscripts are then either accepted, rejected or authors are required to make major or minor revisions (both reviewer comments and editorial comments may need to be addressed). Once a revised manuscript is re-submitted, it is assessed along with the responses to reviewer comments and if it has been adequately revised it will be accepted for publication. Accepted manuscripts are then copyedited and typeset by the production team before online publication. Appeals against decisions following peer review are considered on a case-by-case basis and should be sent to the journal editor, and authors are welcome to make rebuttals against individual reviewer comments if appropriate.
Preprints
We encourage posting of preprints of primary research manuscripts on preprint servers, authors’ or institutional websites, and open communications between researchers whether on community preprint servers or preprint commenting platforms. Posting of preprints is not considered prior publication and will not jeopardize consideration in our journals. Authors should disclose details of preprint posting during the submission process or at any other time point during consideration in our journal. Once the preprint is published, it is the author's responsibility to ensure that the preprint record is updated with a publication reference, including the DOI and URL link to the published version of the article on the journal website.
For further information on preprint sharing, please see: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author/journal-author-helpdesk/submission/1302#c16721550
Copyright
Infectious Diseases and Therapy is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License, which allows users to read, copy, distribute, and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited. The author assigns the exclusive right to any commercial use of the article to Springer. For more information about the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License, click here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0.
Publication Fees
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be required to pay the mandatory Rapid Service Fee of €5250/$6000. The journal will consider fee discounts and waivers for developing countries and this is decided on a case-by-case basis. Considering the time and effort required for a detailed peer review, we also reward our regular reviewers with the opportunity to publish without the Rapid Service Fee (pending peer review) for every three reviews completed per calendar year.
Open Access
All articles are published in Infectious Diseases and Therapy are published open access.
Contact
For more information about the journal, including pre-submission enquiries, please contact hannah.payne@springer.com.
USA Michael J. Rybak,Pharm.D.,MPH, Ph.D.,Wayne State University, USA
Europe Alex Soriano,M.D.,Ph.D., Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Spain
Editorial Board
José R. Arribas, MD,La Paz University Hospital, Spain
Matteo Bassetti, MD, PhD,University of Udine, Italy
Patrick P. Basu, MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
Vincent Bekker, MD, PhD,LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
Antonella d'Arminio Monforte, MD, San Paolo University Hospital, Italy
Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, MD, PhD, University of Athens Medical School, Greece
Ellie J. C. Goldstein, MD, R. M. Alden Research Laboratory, USA
Adam Hersh, MD, PhD, University of Utah, USA
Michael Hornsey, BSc, MSc, PhD, University of Surrey, UK
Victoria Johnston, MD, PhD, MSc, FRCP, DTM&H, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Paul Kilgore, BSc, MPH, MD, Wayne State University, USA
Kerry LaPlante, PharmD, FCCP, FIDSA, University of Rhode Island; Brown University; Providence Veterans Medical Center, USA
Adriano Lazzarin, MD, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Vita-Salute University, Italy
Donald Levine, MD, Wayne State University, USA
Miguel J. Martinez Yoldi, MD, PhD, Hospital Clinic i Provincial de Barcelona, Spain
Joseph Meletiadis, PhD, Attikon University Hospital, Greece
Irving Nachamkin, DrPH, MPH, D(ABMM), FAAM, FIDSA, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jason Newland, MD, MEd, Kansas City School of Medicine and Children's Mercy Hospital, USA
Kenneth V. I. Rolston, MD, University of Texas, USA
Michael Saag, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Nikolaos Siafakas, BSc, MSc, PhD, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Andrew Ustianowski, MD, PhD, FRCP, DTM&H, North Manchester General Hospital, UK
Berend van Welzen, MD, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
Dafna Yahav, MD, Beilinson Hospital, Israel
Advisory Board
Jessica L. Adams, Duha Al Zubeidi, Katie Barber, Lonneke Bode, Kalifa Bojang, Jean Carlet, Jose Luis Casado, Kimberly C. Claeys, Nancy Crum-Cianflone, Aditi Dey, Giovanni Gabutti, Daniele Roberto Giacobbe, Jennifer Goldman, Jose Luis Górriz, Karen L. Grinnen, John Hays, Yingfen Hsai, Sarah Jorgensen, Benjamin Kagina, Razieh Kebriaei, Tanaya Lahiri, Jennifer Le, Yingxia Liu, Donna MacCallum, Sabina Magalini, Francesca Mancianti, Monica Malone McNeal, Lior Nesher, Ziad Nasr, Mukesh Pasupuleti, Sara Pett, Jason Pogue, Raghavendra Sumanth Kumar Pudupakam, Elda Righi, Ricardo Romiti, Warren Rose, George Sakoulas, Palash Samanta, Mahmoud Shorman, Meenal Sinha, Younes Smani, Jordan R. Smith, Gavin Spickett, Trang Trinh, Akihito Tsubota, Scott Weese, James Whitney, Juwon Yim, Evan J. Zasowski, Alexandre Prehn Zavascki
Recruitment
AsInfectious Diseases and Therapycontinues to go from strength to strength, we are constantly looking to expand our esteemed Editorial and Advisory Reviewer Boards, and include within them individuals who may want to further their editorial experience within their range of expertise. With this in mind, if you would like to represent your research community as part of our boards, please email hannah.payne@springer.com with the following information: Name, title (Mr/Mrs/Dr/Prof), profession, affiliation/institution or company, country, telephone number, area(s) of expertise, and a brief Curriculum Vitae (CV).
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