Computational Biology and Chemistry

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Computational Biology and Chemistry

Discipline	Computational biology and chemistry
Language	English
Edited  by	Wentian Li, Donald Hamelberg
Publication details
Former name(s)	Computers & Chemistry
History	1976–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	7/year
Impact factor	3.1 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Comput. Biol. Chem.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
CODEN	CBCOCH
ISSN	1476-9271
LCCN	2003252370
OCLC  no.	643939876
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Computational Biology and Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering all areas of computational life sciences. The current editors-in-chief are Wentian Li (The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research) and Donald Hamelberg (Georgia State University). The journal was established in 1976 as Computers & Chemistry, with DeLos F. DeTar (Florida State University) as its first editor. It obtained its current title in 2003 under the editorship of Andrzej K Konopka and James Crabble (University of Bedfordshire).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• BIOSIS
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• Chemical Abstracts
• Current Contents
• EMBiology
• Engineering Index
• Inspec
• MEDLINE
• MathSciNet
• PASCAL
• Science Citation Index
• Scopus

According to ScienceDirect, the journal had a 2024 impact factor of 3.1 and a CiteScore of 4.3. ^[1] It was ranked 52nd out of 102 journals in the category "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications". ^[2]

References

1. "Computational Biology and Chemistry – Journal". ScienceDirect. Elsevier. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
2. "Computational Biology and Chemistry – Journal Ranking". OOIR. Retrieved September 3, 2025.

External links

• Official website