Table 1 Comparison Table—Quartile, Plagiarism detected in each Quartile, Journal, Papers Analyzed, Plagiarism Policy, Cite Score, and Publisher

Q1

36.7% (n = 29)

Immunity

20

Yes

46

Elsevier

Nature Reviews Microbiology

16

Yes

48.4

Springer Nature

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

15

Yes

47.5

American Society for Microbiology

Lancet—Infectious Diseases

20

Yes

50.3

Elsevier

Trends in Microbiology

8

No

23.9

Elsevier

Q2

52.5% (n = 52)

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease

19

Yes

3.27

Springer

Virus Research

20

Yes

7.2

Elsevier

Travel Medicine and Infective Disease

20

Yes

14.8

Elsevier

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection

20

Yes

12.0

Elsevier

Expert Review of Anti Infective Therapy

20

No

6.5

Taylor and Francis

Q3

20% (n = 13)

Current Clinical Microbiology Reports

6

No

6.3

Springer Nature

Infection Disease and Health

20

Yes

3.7

Elsevier

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology

14

Yes

3.7

Hindawi

Germs

8

No

2.1

European Academy of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases

The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

17

Yes

3.5

Elsevier

Q4

52.2% (n = 35)

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

5

Yes

1.5

Elsevier

Biosafety and Health

22

Yes

4.8

Elsevier

The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development

4

No

1.0

Ethiopian Public Health Association

Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Virology

2

Yes

0.6

Pleiades Publishing

Journal of Communicable Disease

8

Yes

0.2

Indian Society for Malaria and Other Communicable Diseases

Global Epidemiology

6

Yes

2.0

Elsevier

Infectious Diseases In Clinical Practice

13

No

0.4

Wolters Kluwer Health

JAMMI—Official Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease in Canada

7

No

1.8

University of Toronto Press