International Journal of Molecular Sciences


The International Journal of Molecular Sciences is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering research in chemistry, molecular physics, and molecular biology. It is published by MDPI and was established in 2000. The editors-in-chief are Michael Iba, Charles Brennan, Stephen Bustin, Mark Cronin, Claude A. Daul, Claire Hellio, Kurt A. Jellinger, Ian A. Nicholls, and Andreas Taubert.

Citation information

IJMS published more than 7,000 papers by the end of October 2015. It has almost 500,000 full text views monthly. In 2005, IJMS was indexed in Web of Science. Its 2006 impact factor was 0.75. The impact factors for IJMS have increased steadily every year between 2006 and 2011. Although the impact factors have declined slightly between 2011 and 2013, publications in IJMS increased from 631 to 1367 and the 2014 journal impact factor is 2.862. In 2015, IJMS ranked Q2 in the categories 'Biochemistry & Molecular Biology' and 'Chemistry, Multidisciplinary' according to the 2015 release of the Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 3.226.

Abstracting and indexing

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