Aims and Scope

Aims

Global Virology Reports (GVR) aims to be a leading, high-impact international journal dedicated to advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of viral diseases. The journal provides a platform for publishing high-quality original research, reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and perspectives that bridge fundamental virology, translational research, and public health.

Our goal is to foster a global community of virologists, clinicians, epidemiologists, and researchers working across human, animal, and environmental virology, emphasizing cross-disciplinary insights that accelerate innovation and knowledge dissemination.

Scope

GVR publishes high-quality research covering the full breadth of virology, with a primary focus on viruses affecting human, animal, and environmental health. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary studies that advance understanding of viral biology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnostics, prevention, and control.

GVR accepts manuscripts in the following primary domains:

1. Human Virology

  • Clinical virology and viral diseases
  • Viral pathogenesis and host immune responses
  • Diagnostics, vaccines, and antiviral therapeutics
  • Outbreak investigations, surveillance, and epidemiology
  • Viral genomics, evolution, and molecular epidemiology

2. Animal & Zoonotic Virology

  • Veterinary and wildlife viral infections
  • Zoonotic spillover and emerging viruses
  • One Health approaches to viral transmission
  • Vector-borne viruses

3. Environmental & Global Health Virology

  • Environmental and waterborne viruses
  • Virus–ecosystem interactions
  • Wastewater surveillance and environmental monitoring
  • Virology within global health and pandemic preparedness

4. Molecular & Experimental Virology

  • Environmental
  • Virus–host interactions
  • Viral replication mechanisms
  • Structural virology
  • Antiviral resistance
  • Biotechnology and experimental virology

5. Plant Virology (Conditional)

GVR will consider research involving plant viruses only when the study has broader virological or biomedical relevance, such as: 

  • Molecular mechanisms shared across virus families
  • Cross-kingdom interactions or vector biology
  • Biotechnological applications (e.g., viral vectors, nanotechnology)
  • Environmental virology links (e.g., ecology, climate, One Health contexts)
  • Insights into virus evolution, genomics, or fundamental virology

Article types

GVR welcomes the following article types:

  • Original Research
  • Reviews & Mini-Reviews
  • Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses
  • Short Communications
  • Technical Notes / Methods Papers
  • Case Studies / Outbreak Reports
  • Commentaries, Editorials, and Perspectives
  • Data Reports