Eurosurveillance is indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, EMBASE and EBSCO databases. The journal has been selected for coverage by Thomson Reuters and is indexed and abstracted in the Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch) and in the Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition beginning with Volume 14(1) 2009. The current impact factor, for the year 2012, is 5.491 (Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters, 2013). This places Eurosurveillance at rank 6 among the 69 journals in the category Infectious Diseases.