Computational Biology and Chemistry

"Comput. Chem." redirects here; not to be confused with Computational Chemistry (SCIRP journal).

Computational Biology and Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering all areas of computational life sciences. The current editors-in-chief are Wentian Li (The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research) and Donald Hamelberg (Georgia State University). The journal was established in 1976 as Computers & Chemistry, with DeLos F. DeTar (Florida State University) as its first editor. It obtained its current title in 2003 under the editorship of Andrzej K Konopka and James Crabble (University of Bedfordshire).

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Discipline	Computational biology and chemistry
Language	English
Edited by	Wentian Li, Donald Hamelberg
Publication details
Former name	Computers & Chemistry
History	1976–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	7/year
Impact factor	3.1 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Comput. Biol. Chem.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	CBCOCH
ISSN	1476-9271
LCCN	2003252370
OCLC no.	643939876
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• BIOSIS
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• Chemical Abstracts
• Current Contents
• EMBiology
• Engineering Index
• Inspec
• MEDLINE
• MathSciNet
• PASCAL
• Science Citation Index
• Scopus

According to ScienceDirect, the journal had a 2024 impact factor of 3.1 and a CiteScore of 4.3.^[1] It was ranked 52nd out of 102 journals in the category "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications".^[2]