Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics

Academic journal

Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of the biology of cells, especially their biochemistry and biophysics. It was established in 1979 as Cell Biophysics with Nicholas Catsimpoolas as founding editor-in-chief, obtaining its current name in 1996. The journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief is Lawrence J. Berliner (University of Denver).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• AGRICOLA
• BIOSIS Previews^[1]
• Chemical Abstracts Service^[2]
• CSA Environmental Sciences
• Elsevier Biobase
• EMBASE^[3]
• EMBiology
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[4]
• Inspec^[5]
• Referativnyi Zhurnal
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[1]
• Scopus^[6]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.194.^[7]

Peer review problems

In March 2015 the publisher placed the journal on hold after a pattern of "inappropriate and compromised peer review" was uncovered.^[8] Retraction Watch noted that the journal had retracted 16 articles in the preceding year that had been generated by the computer program SCIgen,^[9][10] as well as a further paper for plagiarism,^[11] although it was not stated whether these cases were related to the suspension.

References

1. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
2. "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service. American Chemical Society. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
3. "Journal titles covered in Embase". Embase. Elsevier. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
4. "Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
5. "Inspec list of journals" (PDF). Inspec. Institution of Engineering and Technology. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
6. "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
7. "Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2021.
8. "Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics on hold". Springer Science+Business Media. 13 March 2015. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
9. "Updated: Springer journal on hold for "pattern of inappropriate and compromised peer review"". Retraction Watch. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
10. "Springer, IEEE withdrawing more than 120 nonsense papers". Retraction Watch. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
11. "Wasted breath: Cribbing earns retraction of anesthesia paper". Retraction Watch. 25 August 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2015.

External links

• Official website