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Eurosurveillance is a European peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases, with a focus on such topics that are of relevance to Europe. It is a weekly online journal, published every Thursday, and features short rapid communications, longer in-depth research articles, surveillance and outbreak reports, reviews and perspective papers, as well as short news items. Timely publication of short authoritative papers on ongoing outbreaks or other relevant public health events is one of the major assets of the journal. Under special circumstances when current events need to be urgently communicated to readers for rapid public health action, e-alerts can be released outside of the regular publishing schedule. Topical compilations of selected articles and special issues are also published in print.
The entire content is open access, free of charge for both readers and authors. All articles are indexed in the PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, EMBASE and EBSCO databases. Starting from June 2013, indexed articles are tagged with document identifiers (DOIs) and registered with CrossRef. The journal has been selected for coverage by Thomson Reuters and is indexed and abstracted in the Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch) and in the Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition beginning with Volume 14(1) 2009. The current impact factor, for the year 2012, is 5.491 (Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters, 2013). This places Eurosurveillance at rank 6 among the 69 journals in the category Infectious Diseases. The Scopus-based SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) for 2012 ranks Eurosurveillance at 54 of 1, 824 journals in the field of medicine.
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