Journal of Molecular Biology

The Journal of Molecular Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of molecular biology. It was established in 1959 and is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Peter Wright (The Scripps Research Institute).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Biological Abstracts

• BIOSIS Previews

• Chemical Abstracts Service

• Current Contents/Life Sciences

• Embase

• EMBiology

• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed

• Science Citation Index

• Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 5.6.

Notable articles
Some of the most highly cited articles that have appeared in the journal are:
 * , in which Jacques Monod, Jeffries Wyman, and Jean-Pierre Changeux presented the MWC model, that explained the cooperativity exhibited by allosteric proteins, such as hemoglobin.
 * , in which Edwin Southern presented the first description of nucleic acid blotting, a technique that revolutionized the field of molecular biology.
 * , in which the Smith–Waterman algorithm for determining the degree of homology of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences was first described.
 * , in which the nucleic acid and protein homology search algorithm known as BLAST was originally described.