Journal of Computational Biology

The Journal of Computational Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computational biology and bioinformatics. It was established in 1994 and is published by Mary Ann Liebert, a subsidiary of Sage Publishing. The founding editors-in-chief were Sorin Istrail (Brown University) and Michael S. Waterman (University of Southern California), who served until 2020 when they were succeeded by Mona Singh (Princeton University).^[1] The journal publishes occasional special issues, often based on the proceedings of scientific meetings.^[2]

Journal of Computational Biology

Discipline	Computational biology
Language	English
Edited by	Mona Singh
Publication details
History	Since 1994
Publisher	Mary Ann Liebert
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	1.6 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Comput. Biol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	JCOBEM
ISSN	1066-5277 (print) 1557-8666 (web)
LCCN	94658564
OCLC no.	26981925
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts^[3]
• BIOSIS Previews^[3]
• Chemical Abstracts Service^[4]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences^[3]
• EBSCO Databases^[5]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[6]
• MathSciNet^[7]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[3]
• Scopus^[8]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 1.6.^[9]

See also

• BMC Bioinformatics
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• PLOS Computational Biology