Biophysical Journal

Biophysical Journal is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cell Press on behalf of the Biophysical Society. The journal was established in 1960 and covers all aspects of biophysics.

Biophysical Journal

Discipline	Biophysics
Language	English
Edited by	Vasanthi Jayaraman
Publication details
Publisher	Cell Press
Frequency	Biweekly
Open access	delayed (after 12 months)
Impact factor	3.4 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Biophys. J.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	BIOJAU
ISSN	0006-3495 (print) 1542-0086 (web)
LCCN	63006481
OCLC no.	01390110
Links
Journal homepage Online access

The journal occasionally publishes special issues devoted to specific topics. In addition, a supplemental "abstracts issue" is published, containing abstracts of presentations at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. The editor-in-chief is Vasanthi Jayaraman.

History

Main article: Biophysical Society

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief:^[1]

• 1960-1963 Frank Brink, Jr.
• 1964-1966 J. Lawrence Oncley
• 1967-1969 Fred M. Snell
• 1969-1973 Max A. Lauffer
• 1973-1977 Frederick A. Dodge
• 1977-1980 V. Adrian Parsegian
• 1980-1983 John Gergely
• 1984-1987 Eugene Ackerman
• 1988-1992 Thomas E. Thompson
• 1993-1997 Victor A. Bloomfield
• 1997-2002 Peter B. Moore
• 2002-2007 Robert Callender
• 2007-2012 Edward H. Egelman
• 2012-2017 Leslie Loew
• 2017-2021 Jane Dyson
• 2022-2027 Vasanthi Jayaraman