Journal of Biological Chemistry
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| description | Trade journal |
| Area of Expertise | Biochemistry and molecular biology |
| language | English |
| First edition | 1905 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Editor-in-chief | Martha J. Fedor, Herbert Tabor |
| editor | American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| Web link | www.jbc.org |
| ISSN (print) | 0021-9258 |
| ISSN (online) | 1083-351X |
| CODEN | JBCHA3 |
The Journal of Biological Chemistry , shortly JBC or J Biol Chem for citations and bibliographies , is since 1905 existing English-language scientific journal on topics of biochemistry and molecular biology . The information contained in the journal article are subject to prior to publication peer review , that is an assessment by other scientists as an independent appraiser act. The JBC is since 1925 by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ( American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, published ASBMB) and is published weekly in print and online in the World Wide Web at the Stanford University belonging publishing HighWire Press .
The founders of the journal were the American biochemist John Jacob Abel and the American pathologist Christian Archibald Herter . The editorial office was initially located at Cornell University , then from 1937 to 1958 at Yale University and then until 1967 at Harvard University . Since then, the editorial office has been in New York . The Journal of Biological Chemistry appears in a printed edition of around 3300 issues. The impact factor, as a measure of the average number of citations per published article, was 4.573 in 2014. According to an evaluation of the Web of Science , the journal with this impact factor ranks 61st out of 289 journals in the field of biochemistry and molecular biology . Based on the total number of citations, the JBC was the most cited journal before the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) among the journals included in the Science Citation Index between 1996 and 2006 .
Web links
- Journal of Biological Chemistry Official Website