Retrovirology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering basic research on retroviruses. The journal was established in 2004 and is published by BioMed Central. The editors-in-chief are Johnson Mak (Griffith University, Australia) and Susan Ross (University of Illinois at Chicago); earlier, Kuan-Teh Jeang was editor-in-chief.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Biological Abstracts • BIOSIS Previews • Chemical Abstracts Service • Current Contents/Life Sciences • Embase • EMBiology • Global Health • Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed • Science Citation Index • Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 4.183, ranking it 10th out of 37 journals in the category "Virology".