''Biological Chemistry'' is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such as s ...
focusing on
biological chemistry
Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...
. The journal is published by
Walter de Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...
and the current
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is
Bernhard Brüne
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Given name
*Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1604–1639), Duke of Saxe-Weimar
*Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984), head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen 1946 ...
.
History
The journal was established by
Felix Hoppe-Seyler
Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (''né'' Felix Hoppe; 26 December 1825 – 10 August 1895) was a German physiologist and chemist, and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology.
Biography
Hoppe-Seyler was b ...
in 1877, under the name ''Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie'' (English: ''Journal of Physiological Chemistry''), and was edited by him until his death in 1895.
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
Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel (; 16 September 1853 – 5 July 1927) was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his work in determining the ch ...
, until his death in 1927.
In 1985 the journal was renamed as ''Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler'', before obtaining its current title in 1996.
Abstracting and indexing
''Biological Chemistry'' is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2014
impact factor
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of 3.268, ranking it 106th out of 289 journals in the category "Biochemistry & Molecular Biology".
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bchm
Publications established in 1877
De Gruyter academic journals
Biochemistry journals
English-language journals
Monthly journals
1877 establishments in Germany