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IDCases — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of IDCases is 0.9 (quartile not confirmed; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 0.9 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Infectious Diseases
- Quartile
- quartile not confirmed
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- sciencedirect.com
Position within the field
Ranked 42 of the 42 journals in Infectious Diseases on this site (bottom 50%).
Infectious Diseases journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Infection, Genetics and Evolution IF 2.8
- American Journal of Infection Control IF 2.6
- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology IF 2.6
- Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica IF 2.2
- Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease IF 1.8
- Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy IF 1.7
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Accepted. Specialist journal for single cases and case series in infectious diseases. Reports from veterinary and zoonotic perspectives also accepted. Structure: Cover Page / Abstract / Introduction / Case / Discussion / Acknowledgements / COI / References. Image-based Case Illustrated section: main text up to 400 words, under 5 references (identifiable clinical images require patient permission). Mayo Clinic and HIV editions of Curated Case Reports are invited
- Article types
- Case Report / Case Illustrated / Curated Case Reports (invited)
- Abstract
- 250 words
- Figures/tables
- Up to 5 figures
- References
- Up to 20
- OA / APC
- gold / – (Fully OA (APC amount not stated in the guidelines; see the journal's OA page))
- Reporting guidelines
- CONSORT (RCTs). CARE not explicitly stated
- Submission system
- Editorial Manager
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of IDCases (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 0.9. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Infectious Diseases.