Journal of Biomedical Science


The Journal of Biomedical Science is a peer-reviewed medical journal that covers all aspects of basic medical sciences. It was established in 1994 and initially published by Springer Science+Business Media. Since 2009 it has been published by BioMed Central, after which it became open access. Originally the journal was published quarterly, before changing its frequency to bimonthly in 1996. The editor-in-chief is Wen-Chang Chang.
The Journal was the first international journal in biomedical science to be operated by a Taiwanese team.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 3.466.

Rankings

JCR ranked the Journal of Biomedical Science as No. 1 among 19 similar publications in Asia and 20th of 136 similar journals worldwide in 2018. In cell biology the journal was ranked fourth among 18 similar publications in Asia and 49th among 193 similar publications in the world in 2018.