朊病毒是第一個國際同行評審的開放獲取期刊，專門關注蛋白質折疊和錯誤折疊，蛋白質組裝障礙，蛋白質基礎和結構遺傳。其目標是通過使用傳統和電子格式及時發表重要成果，促進交流和迅速交換信息。發表朊病毒的首要標準是原創性、科學價值和大眾興趣。

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.