Emerging Infectious Diseases is a peer-reviewed medical journal

Medical journal

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 published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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. It is in the public domain

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 and is published monthly by the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. The journal covers global new and reemerging infectious diseases

Emerging infectious diseases

An emerging infectious disease is an infectious disease whose incidence has increased in the past 20 years and threatens to increase in the near future. Emerging infections account for at least 12% of all human pathogens. EIDs include diseases caused by a newly identified microorganism or newly...

 and aims for understanding in disease emergence, prevention, control, and elimination. According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2009 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...

is 6.794, ranking it 3rd out of 57 journals in the "infectious disease" category.