Current Biology

Current Biology is a scientific journal, the articles from all areas of biology published, especially from cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, neurobiology, ecology and evolutionary biology. Current Biology is published bi- weekly and includes research that are subject to peer review. Furthermore Current Biology contains review articles and a magazine section. The magazine was founded in 1992 and is since 2001 part of Cell Press, a division of Elsevier. The chief editor is Geoffrey North and the current (as of 2012) Impact Factor is 9.494. In the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the journal is thus ranked 19th of 290 journals in the category Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and number 22 out of 184 journals in the category Cell Biology.