Journal History
| 1999 | CIMB inaugural issue was released by Horizon Scientific Press (in 2008 Horizon Scientific Press changed name to Caister Academic Press). CIMB was indexed in MEDLINE (PubMed) - NLM. |
| 2005 | CIMB was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 21 (Issue 1). |
| 2019 | CIMB was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| 2021 | CIMB was published by MDPI from Volume 43, Issue 1 (2021). CIMB established the following sections: Molecular Medicine; Bioinformatics and Systems Biology; Bioorganic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry; Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Pharmacology; Molecular Plant Sciences; Molecular Microbiology. |
| 2022 | CIMB adopted a monthly publication schedule. CIMB announced the first edition of the Best Paper Awards and Outstanding Reviewer Awards. |
| 2023 | CIMB published its 1000th paper. |
| 2024 | The year 2024 marks the 25th Anniversary of CIMB. CIMB published its 2000th paper. |
| 2025 | CIMB announced the first edition of the Travel Awards. |
| 2026 | CIMB received its 2025 Impact Factor (4.1), ranked 130/328 (Q2) in "Biochemistry and Molecular Biology". CIMB received its 2025 CiteScore (5.0), ranked 63/147 (Q2) in "Microbiology (medical)". |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2019–2022 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Rafael Franco |
| 2022–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Madhav Bhatia |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2021–2026 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Hidayat Hussain for the section on Bioorganic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bruce S. Seal for the section on Molecular Microbiology |
| 2023–2025 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ru Chih C. Huang for the section on Molecular Medicine |
| 2025–2026 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Leonardo Scapozza for the section on Molecular Pharmacology |
| 2025–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Stuart Maudsley for the section on Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Zhaohui Chu for the section on Molecular Plant Sciences Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Howard H. Yang for the section on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology |
| 2026–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nilanjana Maulik for the section on Molecular Medicine Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Igor F. Tsigelny for the section on Molecular Pharmacology |
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