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Journal History

2000 The inaugural issue was released. IJMS was published as a quarterly journal.
2003 IJMS adopted a monthly publication schedule.
2004 IJMS was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 5 (Issue 1).
2005 IJMS received its first Impact Factor (1.467).
2007 IJMS established the following sections:
  • Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics (later was renamed as Biochemistry);
  • Nutraceuticals and Chemopreventives (later was renamed as Bioactives and Nutraceuticals);
  • Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (discontinued later);
  • Material Sciences and Nanotechnology (later was renamed as Materials Science);
  • Molecular Pathology;
  • Green Chemistry.
2008 MDPI joined CrossRef and started assigning DOI numbers to each paper published in the IJMS.
All papers from this year on were released under the Creative Commons (CC-BY) license.
IJMS was archived in PubMed Central (PMC) and indexed in PubMed.
2009 IJMS published its 500th paper.
IJMS established the following sections:
  • Molecular Toxicology;
  • Muscle Contraction (discontinued after one year);
  • Molecular Recognition (discontinued later);
  • Molecular Diagnostics.
2010 IJMS published its 1,000th paper.
2014 IJMS published its 5,000th paper.
2015 IJMS established the section Bioinorganic Chemistry.
2016 IJMS established the following sections:
  • Molecular Botany (later was renamed as Molecular Plant Sciences);
  • Translational Medicine (discontinued after one year).
IJMS announced the first edition of the Young Investigator Prize and Travel Awards.
2017 IJMS published its 10,000th paper.
IJMS held its first physical meeting, the 2nd ISFMS: Non-Coding RNAs and Epigenetics in Cancer, in Basel, Switzerland, from 21 to 23 June 2017.
IJMS rearranged the sections as following:
  • Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology;
  • Bioactives and Nutraceuticals;
  • Molecular Botany (later renamed as Molecular Plant Sciences);
  • Molecular Biophysics;
  • Biomaterial Sciences (later was renamed as Materials Science);
  • Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics;
  • Molecular Toxicology;
  • Bioinorganic Chemistry (discontinued later).
2018 IJMS established the following sections:
  • Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics;
  • Molecular Microbiology;
  • Molecular Oncology;
  • Molecular Genetics and Genomics;
  • Molecular Neurobiology;
  • Macromolecules;
  • Molecular Immunology;
  • Molecular Pharmacology;
  • Molecular Informatics;
  • Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism.

The Epigenetics Society (ES) became affiliated to IJMS.
2019 IJMS adopted a semi-monthly publication schedule.
IJMS established the section Molecular Role of Xenobiotics (discontinued later).
IJMS published its 20,000th paper.
The European Calcium Society (ECS) (stopped cooperation in February 2025) became affiliated to IJMS.
The European Chitin Society (EUCHIS) became affiliated to IJMS.
The Signal Transduction Society (STS) (stopped cooperation in May 2023) became affiliated to IJMS.
The Spanish Society for Cell Biology (SEBC) became affiliated to IJMS.
IJMS held the 3rd ISFMS: RNA Regulatory Networks, in Lisbon, Portugal, from 26 to 28 June 2019.
2021 The Biomedical Research Centre (CIBM) became affiliated to IJMS.
The British Neuro-Oncology Society (BNOS) became affiliated to IJMS.
2022 IJMS established the section Molecular Nanoscience.
IJMS held the 4th ISFMS: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Druggability of Proteins, in Florence, Italy, from 6 to 9 September, 2022.
The Italian Society of Food Sciences (SISA) became affiliated to IJMS.
2025 IJMS published its 100,000th paper.
IJMS held the 5th ISFMS: Molecular Regulatory Mechanisms of Biological Function and Drug Discovery Based on Protein Structure/Function Analysis, in Kyoto, Japan, from 26 to 29 August, 2025.
2026 IJMS received its 2025 Impact Factor (5.6), ranked 72/328 (Q1) in "Biochemistry & Molecular Biology".
IJMS received its 2025 CiteScore (10.0), ranked 66/414 (Q1) in "Molecular Biology".

Editor-in-Chief

2000–2001 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jerzy Leszczynski (Founding Editor)
2004 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Francis F. Muguet
2005 Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
2006–2007 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Claude A. Daul
2017–2026 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Maurizio Battino
2026–present Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. José L. Quiles

Section Editor-in-Chief

2007 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Claude A. Daul for the section on Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert for the section on Material Sciences and Nanotechnology
2007–2009 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael N. Hall for the section on Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
2008 Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Claire Hellio for the section on Green Chemistry
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kurt A. Jellinger for the section on Molecular Pathology
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ian A. Nicholls for the section on Molecular Recognition
2009 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mark L. Richter for the section on Muscle Contraction
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stephen A. Bustin for the section on Molecular Diagnostics
2009–2011 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mark Cronin for the section on Molecular Toxicology
2010–2011 Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Andrei Alexandrescu for the section on Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
2011–2024 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Charles Brennan for the section on Bioactives and Nutraceuticals
2012–2014 Section Editor-in-Chief: Professor Roger A. Coulombe, Jr. for the section on Molecular Toxicology
2012–2016 Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Michael Iba for the section on Molecular Toxicology
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mark L. Richter for the section on Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
2017 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Claire Hellio for the section on Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology
2017–2023 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Guido R.M.M. Haenen for the section on Molecular Toxicology
2017–2026 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Maurizio Battino for the section on Bioactives and Nutraceuticals
2017–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kurt A. Jellinger for the section on Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics”
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stephen Bustin for the section on Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Xiaofeng Jia for the section on Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert for the section on Biomaterial Sciences
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ian A. Nicholls for the section on Molecular Biophysics
2018–2023 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Paschalis Alexandridis for the section on Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
2018–2026 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Claudiu T. Supuran for the section on Biochemistry
2018–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Antonio Rescifina for the section on Molecular Informatics
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jeffrey L. Platt for the section on Molecular Immunology
2019–2022 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael Welsh for the section on Molecular Oncology
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. José L. Quiles for the section on Molecular Role of Xenobiotics
2019–2023 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Maurizio Margaglione for the section on Molecular Genetics and Genomics
2019–2026 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreas Burkovski for the section on Molecular Microbiology
2019–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Antonio Pisani for the section on Molecular Neurobiology
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Dongho Kim for the section on Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
2020–2021 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Bamin Khomami for the section on Macromolecules
2020–2022 Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Eric Vallender for the section on Molecular Genetics and Genomics
2021–2023 Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Manfredi Rizzo for the section on Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism
2022–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yuri Lyubchenko for the section on Molecular Nanoscience
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. José L. Quiles for the section on Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism
2023–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Giovanni Malerba for the section on Molecular Genetics and Genomics
2024–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. João Pedro Silva for the section on Molecular Toxicology
2025–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Burkhard Poeggeler for the section on Molecular Pharmacology
2026–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nobuyuki Takahashi for the section on Bioactives and Nutraceuticals
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yoshinori Marunaka for the section on Biochemistry
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Hao Lin for the section on Molecular Informatics
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Vishwanath Venketaraman for the section on Molecular Microbiology
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