Biochemical Journal

History

The journal was established in 1906{{Cite journal

The journal at first appeared at irregular intervals, with between three and twelve issues appearing annually in a single volume. From 1948, two volumes were published annually, with four or five parts per volume, and the frequency increased rapidly over the years, reaching the current frequency of eight volumes in three parts in 1974.

Current journal

Eight volumes are published each year with each volume consisting of three parts (24 issues per year).

To mark the centenary of the journal in 2006, a free online archive back to the journal's first issue in 1906 was launched. All papers are available as pdfs, and recent papers are also available in a proprietary format called Enhanced Electronic Serials Interface-View (EESI-View). The journal won the first Charlesworth Award of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) for Best Online Journal in 2007. The judges described the online journal as '"visually attractive and easy to use ... maintains the character of the journal while exploiting the digital medium to offer a range of additional features".

Towards the end of 2009, the journal launched a new technological innovation: the Semantic Biochemical Journal.{{Cite journal | author-link1 = Terri Attwood | author-link2 = Douglas Kell | author-link5 = Steve Pettifer | author-link1 = Terri Attwood | author-link2 = Douglas Kell | author-link5 = Steve Pettifer

Highly-cited papers

The journal has published many highly cited papers. There are more than 100 that have been cited more than 1000 times each, and the following have been cited more than 5000 times each:

• (cited more than 17,000 times)
• (cited more than 10,000 times)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Elsevier Biobase, BIOSIS Previews, CAB International, Chemical Abstracts Service, Current Contents, Embase, International Food Information Service, MEDLINE/Index Medicus, ProQuest databases, and the Science Citation Index.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 4.097.

References

References

1. [https://archive.today/20130118025030/http://www.bjcentenary.com/news/jclark.htm Clark J. Biochemical Journal Centenary (2006)] (accessed 30 September 2007)
2. [http://www.biochemj.org/bj/001/1/admin.pdf Anon (1906) ''Bio-Chemical Journal'' 1: i–iii] (accessed 30 September 2007)
3. [http://www.biochemj.org/bj/007/1/admin.pdf Anon ''Biochemical Journal'' (1913) 7: i–vi] (accessed 30 September 2007)
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5. ''Biochemical Journal'' hits the heights ''The Biochemist'' (14 September 2007)]
6. (2020). "2019 Journal Citation Reports". [[Clarivate Analytics]].