Overview
Vaccines are biological preparations that induce protective adaptive immunity against a specific pathogen by presenting antigens, derived from weakened or inactivated organisms, subunit proteins, or nucleic-acid platforms such as messenger RNA, to the immune system without causing the disease. They prime B- and T-cell responses and immunological memory so that subsequent exposure to the pathogen is met with a rapid, effective defense, reducing incidence, severity, and transmission of infectious disease and, at population scale, contributing to herd immunity. Vaccine science spans antigen design and characterization, immunogenicity and durability, safety and adverse-event surveillance, delivery and immunization-program logistics, and the behavioral dimension of vaccine acceptance and hesitancy. The peer-reviewed research gathered here in the journal's virology and infectious-disease corpus reflects these themes, including COVID-19 vaccine development insights and challenges, characterization of specific vaccine products, modeling of vaccination needs to control transmission, passive-immunity strategies, immunization-clinic models for urban settings, predictors and significance of vaccine hesitancy, rare post-vaccination clinical events, and analyses of financing and governance influencing immunization performance. Together they situate vaccines as a central pillar of infectious-disease prevention and a continuing focus of research into efficacy, safety, and uptake.
Research published in this journal
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
FDA Should Re-evaluate All mRNA Vaccines and Revoke Their Use Authorizations (The Short Version).
Characterization of the Vaccine Abdala
Dynamics of Infections and Number of Vaccines Needed to Avoid Covid-19 in Europe
Adaptive Artificial Passive Immunity as a Suggested Strategy for Treatment of COVID-19 Critical Cases
A High Volume, User-Friendly Immunization Clinic in Vellore, India: A Model for Urban Hospitals
Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in North-Central Nigeria
Primary Membranous Nephropathy Flare After COVID-19 Vaccination
Vaccine Hesitancy: A significant Challange
The Impact of Public Financing, Economic Growth, and Corruption on Immunization Performance: Evidence from 37 Sub-Saharan African Countries
The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): A Narrative Review
Features of the Emergence and Re-Emergence of Infectious Diseases, Geopolitics and Gain-of-Function Research
How this research is being cited
The 12 articles above have been cited 16 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2026 · BMC Public Health
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RajeevZachariah Kompithra et al. · 2025 · Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
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V. Ramasubramanian et al. · 2025 · Journal of Association of Physicians of India
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2025 · Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
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Therdpong Thongseiratch et al. · 2024 · Vaccines
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2024 · Vaccines
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2023 · Healthline
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2023 · Healthline
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