Retrovirology is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 open-access scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 established in 2004 that specializes in publishing original and review articles on the basic research of retrovirus

Retrovirus

A retrovirus is an RNA virus that is duplicated in a host cell using the reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome. The DNA is then incorporated into the host's genome by an integrase enzyme. The virus thereafter replicates as part of the host cell's DNA...

es. Primate

Primate

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 retroviruses are the subject of most publications in the journal, which is published by BioMed Central

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. According to Journal Citation Reports

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, Retrovirology has a 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...

 of 4.11, ranking Retrovirology seventh out of 30 journals in the category "Virology". The editor-in-chief of Retrovirology is Kuan-Teh Jeang. Assistant editors are Monsef Benkirane, Michael Lairmore, Ben Berkhout, Andrew Lever, Masahiro Fuji, Mark Wainberg

Mark Wainberg

Mark A. Wainberg, is a Canadian AIDS researcher and activist. He is the Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University. His laboratory primarily studies HIV reverse transcriptase, and the...

 and Arlberto Fassati.