''Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics'' is a biweekly

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that covers research on all aspects of

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and

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. It is published by

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and , the

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are Paul Fitzpatrick (

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), Helmut Sies (

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), Jian-Ping Jin (

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), and

Henry Jay Forman Henry Jay Forman is both Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the University of California, Merced. and Research Professor Emeritus of Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. He is a specialist in free radical biol ...

(

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History

The journal was established in 1942 by

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as the ''Archives of Biochemistry'', obtaining its current name in 1952. It absorbed the journal ''Molecular Cell Biology Research Communications'' (formerly section B of ''

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ''Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biochemistry and biophysics. It was established in 1959 by Academic Press and is currently published by Elsevier. The ed ...

''), which was published from 1999 to 2001. An index to authors for the first 75 volumes, covering the period from 1943 to 1958, was published in October 1959.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted or indexed in

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/Life Sciences, EMBASE,

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, and the

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 4.013.

References

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