''Molecular Brain'' is a

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covering research on all aspects of the nervous system at the molecular, cellular and systems levels. The journal was established in 2008 and is published by BioMed Central. The founding editor is

Min Zhuo Min Zhuo (born 1964) is a pain neuroscientist at the University of Toronto in Canada. He is also the Michael Smith Chair in Neuroscience and Mental Health as well as the Canada Research Chair in Pain and Cognition and a Fellow of the Royal Soc ...

( University of Toronto) and the editors-in-chief are Bong-Kiun Kaang (

Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a national public research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is largely considered the most prestigious university in South Korea; it is one of the three "S ...

), and

Tim Bliss Timothy Vivian Pelham Bliss FRS (born 27 July 1940) is a British neuroscientist. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, and a group leader emeritus at the Francis Crick Institute, London. In 2016 Professor Tim Bliss shared ...

( National Institute for Medical Research) and Tsuyoshi Miyakawa ( Fujita Health University).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 4.902.

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