Antiviral Therapy is a peer-reviewed academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 published by International Medical Press

International Medical Press

International Medical Press Ltd is a small medical publishing company, based in London, UK. It also has an office in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and one in the Asia-Pacific region...

, London

London

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, UK. It publishes primary papers and reviews on all aspects of the clinical development of antivirals

Antiviral drug

Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used specifically for treating viral infections. Like antibiotics for bacteria, specific antivirals are used for specific viruses...

, including clinical trial

Clinical trial

Clinical trials are a set of procedures in medical research and drug development that are conducted to allow safety and efficacy data to be collected for health interventions...

 results, resistance

Drug resistance

Drug resistance is the reduction in effectiveness of a drug such as an antimicrobial or an antineoplastic in curing a disease or condition. When the drug is not intended to kill or inhibit a pathogen, then the term is equivalent to dosage failure or drug tolerance. More commonly, the term is used...

, viral diagnostics

Diagnosis

Diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of anything. Diagnosis is used in many different disciplines with variations in the use of logics, analytics, and experience to determine the cause and effect relationships...

, drug safety, pharmacoepidemiology

Pharmacoepidemiology

Pharmacoepidemiology is the study of the use of and the effects of drugs in large numbers of people.To accomplish this study, pharmacoepidemiology borrows from both pharmacology and epidemiology. Thus, pharmacoepidemiology is the bridge between both pharmacology and epidemiology...

 and vaccine

Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins...

s. Antiviral Therapy is an official publication of the International Society for Antiviral Research.

The journal was founded in 1996 by Douglas D. Richman

Douglas Richman

Douglas D. Richman is a US medical virologist. Richman has worked primarily in the HIV field over the past twenty years, with major contributions in the areas of resistance and pathogenicity.-Career:...

 (University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

, La Jolla, USA) and Joep M.A. Lange

Joep Lange

Joep MA Lange is a clinical researcher from The Netherlands, specialising in HIV therapy. He is currently Professor of Medicine at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam and Senior Scientific Advisor to the International Antiviral Therapy Evaluation Centre, Amsterdam...

 (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), who still as of 2010 serve as the joint Editors-in-Chief. The first two issues were published by MediTech Media Ltd. The initial publication frequency was quarterly, rising to bimonthly in 2003 and to eight issues a year in 2005. The journal also publishes supplements containing abstracts from various conferences and workshops, including the International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop, International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Lipodystrophy in HIV and Therapies for Viral Hepatitis Workshop.

Articles from 1998 are archived online in PDF format, with content over a year old being free. All online content is available free to those living in developing countries.

The journal had an impact factor

Impact factor

The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...

 of 4.32 in 2009. It is indexed by Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents (Clinical Medicine), EMBASE

EMBASE

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/Excerpta Medica, Medline

MEDLINE

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/Index Medicus

Index medicus

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, Research Alert and SciSearch.

External links

• IMP website: Antiviral Therapy