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Infection and Drug Resistance

Dove Medical Press·New Zealand·ISSN 1178-6973

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableMedicine

Infection and Drug Resistance is published by Dove Medical Press as an open access journal (ISSN 1178-6973). The list article processing charge is $4,320. Typical time to publication is 16 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 96. Primary field: Medicine. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Fee waivers are stated as available. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$4,320

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · Journal fee page

Time to publication

16 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

96

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

2.8

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Infection and Drug Resistance is listed at $4,320. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

The journal's own fee page →

Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

8 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Infection and Drug Resistance publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Antibiotic Resistance in BacteriaTuberculosis Research and EpidemiologyBacterial Identification and Susceptibility TestingAntibiotic Use and ResistanceAntibiotics Pharmacokinetics and EfficacyNosocomial Infections in ICUAntimicrobial Resistance in StaphylococcusPneumonia and Respiratory InfectionsAntifungal resistance and susceptibilityMycobacterium research and diagnosis

Publication record

Indexed articles5,024
Total citations87,846
i10-index2,118
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2008
All ISSNs1178-6973

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.