Biological Chemistry (journal)

Biological Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on biological chemistry. The journal is published by Walter de Gruyter and the current editor-in-chief is Bernhard Brüne.

Biological Chemistry

Discipline	Biochemistry
Language	English
Edited by	Bernhard Brüne
Publication details
Former name(s)	Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie, Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie, Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler
History	1877–present
Publisher	W. de Gruyter
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	3.268 (2014)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Biol. Chem.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	BICHF3
ISSN	1431-6730 (print) 1437-4315 (web)
OCLC no.	41471850
Links
Journal homepage

History

The journal was established by Felix Hoppe-Seyler in 1877, under the name Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie (English: Journal of Physiological Chemistry), and was edited by him until his death in 1895.^[1] The journal was subsequently renamed Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie in 1896. Following Hoppe-Seyler, the journal was edited by his student and collaborator, the German biochemist and Nobel laureate Albrecht Kossel, until his death in 1927.^[1] In 1985 the journal was renamed as Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler, before obtaining its current title in 1996.

Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie

Abstracting and indexing

Biological Chemistry is abstracted and indexed in:

• Academic OneFile
• Biochemistry & Biophysics Citation Index
• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews
• CAB Abstracts
• Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts
• Chemical Abstracts
• CSA Illustrata – Natural Sciences
• CSA Neurosciences Abstracts
• Current Contents/Life Sciences
• Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences
• EMBASE
• EMBiology
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE
• Reaction Citation Index
• Science Citation Index
• Scopus
• Zoological Record

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 3.268, ranking it 106th out of 289 journals in the category "Biochemistry & Molecular Biology".^[2]