Journal of Biological Chemistry

The Journal of Biological Chemistry, J Biol Chem short JBC or for citations and bibliographies, is a 1905 English-language scientific journal to existing topics of biochemistry and molecular biology. The articles contained in the journal are subject to peer review, so an evaluation by other scientists who act as independent reviewers prior to publication. The JBC has been published since 1925 by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ( American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ASBMB ) and appears weekly in both printed form as well as online on the World Wide Web at belonging to the Stanford University Publishing HighWire Press.

Founder of the magazine were the American biochemist John Jacob Abel and the American pathologist Christian Archibald Herter. The editorial was settled first at Cornell University, then from 1937 to 1958 at Yale University and then to 1967 at Harvard University. Since then, the editorial headquarters is in New York. The Journal of Biological Chemistry appears in a printed circulation of approximately 3,300 booklets. The Impact Factor as a measure of the average number of citations per published article was in 2012 at 4,651. After evaluation of the Web of Science, the journal impact factor is with this in biochemistry and molecular biology at 62 instead of 290 journals. Relative to the total number of citations was the JBC between 1996 and 2006 under the journals covered in the Science Citation Index, the most cited journal in front of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS ).