Journal History

1997–2001	Molbank was published as a Molbank Section of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049, CODEN: MOLEFW), only publishing ‘Short Note’.
2002	Molbank started as an independent journal (ISSN 1422-8599; CODEN: MOLBAI).
2007	Molbank was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 2002 (Issue 1).
2009	The inaugural issue was released. Molbank was published as a quarterly journal. (previously published irregularly).
2016	Molbank Added a new article type ‘communication’.
2016	Molbank established the following sections: -Natural Products; -Organic Synthesis; -Structure Determination.
2017	The first Special Issue ‘Heterocycles’ was established.
	Molbank was indexed in Reaxys.
	Molbank was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 2005 (Issue 1).
2026	Molbank adopted a bimonthly publication schedule.

Editor-in-Chief

1997–2001	Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Luc Patiny (Founding Editor)
2002	Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Bruce A. Hathaway
2003–2007	Editor-in-Chief: Reto Mueller (organic-chemistry.org)
2007–2019	Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Norbert Haider
2019–2024	Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. René T. Boeré
2024–present	Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Nicholas Leadbeater

2017–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. René T. Boeré for the section on Structure Determination
2020–present	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Fawaz Aldabbagh for the section on Organic Synthesis