Journal of Molecular Biology
The Journal of Molecular Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of molecular biology. It was established in 1959 by Academic Press in London. It is currently published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief was Peter Wright for the last 33 years. He has been succeeded by Michael F. Summers.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 4.7.
Notable articles
Some of the most highly cited articles that have appeared in the journal are:- , in which Jacques Monod, Jeffries Wyman, and Jean-Pierre Changeux presented the MWC model, that explained the cooperativity exhibited by allosteric proteins, such as hemoglobin.
- , in which Edwin Southern presented the first description of nucleic acid blotting, a technique that revolutionized the field of molecular biology.
- , in which the Smith–Waterman algorithm for determining the degree of homology of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences was first described.
- , in which the nucleic acid and protein homology search algorithm known as BLAST was originally described.