The Journal of Infection is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of infectious disease, covering microbiology, epidemiology and clinical infectious disease medicine.

Established in 1979, the journal was initially published quarterly by Academic Press.

Since 2006, the editor-in-chief has been Robert C. Read, an infectious disease physician and Chair of Infectious Diseases at the University of Southampton,[1][2] and the publisher is Elsevier.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: In 2023, the Journal Citation Reports indicated that the Journal of Infection had an impact factor of 14.3 and a Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) of 2.80, with nearly 14,000 article citations that year.

[11] In the "Infectious Diseases" category, the Journal of Infection was ranked third based on its impact factor, with Lancet Infectious Diseases and Lancet Microbe ranking higher.