Biochimie is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 in the field of biochemistry

Biochemistry

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, biophysics

Biophysics

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 and molecular biology

Molecular biology

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. The journal is currently published monthly by Elsevier

Elsevier

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 jointly with the Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire. All articles are currently in English

English language

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; articles in French

French language

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 were also previously published. , the Editor-in-Chief is Richard Buckingham (Paris, France).

Content since 1971 is available online via ScienceDirect

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 as PDF

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s; access is by subscription only.

History

The journal was published from 1914 under the title Bulletin de la Société de Chimie Biologique ; the title changed to Biochimie in 1971.

Indexing

Biochimie is indexed in BIOSIS

BIOSIS Previews

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, PASCAL, Chemical Abstracts

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, Current Contents

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/Life Sciences, EMBASE

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, EMBiology

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, BIOBASE

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, MEDLINE

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 and Scopus

Scopus

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. The journal's 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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was 3.897.

External links

• Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire Homepage