朊病毒是第一个国际同行评审的开放获取期刊，专门关注蛋白质折叠和错误折叠，蛋白质组装障碍，蛋白质基础和结构遗传。其目标是通过使用传统和电子格式及时发表重要成果，促进交流和迅速交换信息。发表朊病毒的首要标准是原创性、科学价值和大众兴趣。
Prion is the first international peer-reviewed open access journal to focus exclusively on protein folding and misfolding, protein assembly disorders, protein-based and structural inheritance. The goal is to foster communication and rapid exchange of information through timely publication of important results using traditional as well as electronic formats. The overriding criteria for publication in Prion are originality, scientific merit and general interest.
