TheBiochemical Journal is apeer-reviewedscientific journal which covers all aspects ofbiochemistry, as well ascell andmolecular biology. It is published byPortland Press and was established in 1906.
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| Discipline | Biochemistry |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Mark A. Lemmon |
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Former name(s) | The Bio-Chemical Journal |
| History | 1906–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | 24/year |
| After 12 months/hybrid | |
| 4.097 (2019) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) ·Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) ·MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Biochem. J. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt ·alt2) ·JSTOR (alt) ·LCCN (alt) MIAR ·NLM (alt) ·Scopus ·W&L | |
| CODEN | BIJOAK |
| ISSN | 0264-6021 (print) 1470-8728 (web) |
| LCCN | 26011128 |
| OCLC no. | 01532962 |
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History
editThe journal was established in 1906[1] byBenjamin Moore, holder of the first UK chair of biochemistry at theUniversity of Liverpool, with financial support from Edward Whitley, an heir of theGreenall Whitley brewers.[2] The two served as the firsteditors and the journal was initially published by theLiverpool University Press.[3] It was acquired by the Biochemical Club (later renamed theBiochemical Society) in October 1912, shortly after the society's foundation; at that time the journal had 170 subscribers.[2] From 1913, it was published in conjunction withCambridge University Press, withWilliam Bayliss andArthur Harden chairing theeditorial board; the original title ofThe Bio-Chemical Journal[3] becameThe Biochemical Journal at that date.[4]
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.[5]
Current journal
editEight 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 aspdfs, 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 theAssociation of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) for Best Online Journal in 2007.[6] 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.[7] The software used,Utopia Documents, transforms the content of the journal by dynamically linking documents to research data, enabling readers to interact with and manipulate the information in the journal's scientific papers more effectively. The software turns static images, tables, and text into objects that can be linked, annotated, visualized, and analysed interactively.[8]
Highly-cited papers
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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:
- Burton, K. (1956)."A study of the conditions and mechanism of the diphenylamine reaction for the colorimetric estimation of deoxyribonucleic acid".Biochemical Journal.62 (2):315–323.doi:10.1042/bj0620315.PMC 1215910.PMID 13293190. (cited more than 17,000 times)
- Greenwood, FC; Hunter, WM; Glover, JS (1963)."The Preparation of 131I-Labelled Human Growth Hormone of High Specific Radioactivity".Biochemical Journal.89 (1):114–123.doi:10.1042/bj0890114.PMC 1202279.PMID 14097352. (cited more than 10,000 times)
- Nash, T. (1953)."The colorimetric estimation of formaldehyde by means of the Hantzsch reaction".Biochemical Journal.55 (3):416–421.doi:10.1042/bj0550416.PMC 1269292.PMID 13105648.
Abstracting and indexing
editThe journal is abstracted and indexed inElsevier Biobase,BIOSIS Previews,CAB International,Chemical Abstracts Service,Current Contents,Embase,International Food Information Service,MEDLINE/Index Medicus,ProQuest databases, and theScience Citation Index.
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019impact factor of 4.097.[9]
References
edit- ^Barcroft, J. (1906)."The Oxygen Tension in the Submaxillary Glands and certain other tissues".The Biochemical Journal.1 (1):1–10.doi:10.1042/bj0010001.PMC 1276117.PMID 16742011.
- ^abClark J. Biochemical Journal Centenary (2006) (accessed 30 September 2007)
- ^abAnon (1906)Bio-Chemical Journal 1: i–iii (accessed 30 September 2007)
- ^AnonBiochemical Journal (1913) 7: i–vi (accessed 30 September 2007)
- ^BJ Central: Contents by IssueArchived October 26, 2007, at theWayback Machine (accessed 30 September 2007)
- ^Biochemical Journal hits the heightsThe Biochemist (14 September 2007)]
- ^Attwood, T. K.;Kell, D. B.; McDermott, P.; Marsh, J.;Pettifer, S. R.; Thorne, D. (2009)."Calling International Rescue: Knowledge lost in literature and data landslide!".Biochemical Journal.424 (3):317–333.doi:10.1042/BJ20091474.PMC 2805925.PMID 19929850.
- ^Attwood, T. K.;Kell, D. B.; McDermott, P.; Marsh, J.;Pettifer, S. R.; Thorne, D. (2010)."Utopia documents: Linking scholarly literature with research data".Bioinformatics.26 (18):i568 –i574.doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq383.PMC 2935404.PMID 20823323.
- ^"Biochemical Journal".2019 Journal Citation Reports.Web of Science (Science ed.).Clarivate Analytics. 2020.