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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).
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 International Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Science: 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.
2019 IJMS adopted a semi-monthly publication schedule.
IJMS established the section Molecular Role of Xenobiotics (discontinued later).
IJMS published its 20,000th paper.
IJMS became an affiliated journal of the following societies:
IJMS held the 3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Science – RNA Regulatory Networks, in Lisbon, Portugal, from 26 to 28 June 2019.
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.

Editor-in-Chief

2000–2001 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jerzy Leszczynski
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

Section Editor-in-Chief

2007 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Claude A. Daul for the section on Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
2007–2009 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael N. Hall for the section on Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
2007 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert for the section on Material Sciences and Nanotechnology
2010–2011 Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Andrei Alexandrescu for the section on Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
2009–2011 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mark Cronin for the section on Molecular Toxicology
2009 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mark L. Richter for the section on Muscle Contraction
2008 Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Claire Hellio for the section on Green Chemistry
2008 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kurt A. Jellinger for the section on Molecular Pathology
2008 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ian A. Nicholls for the section on Molecular Recognition
2009 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stephen A. Bustin for the section on Molecular Diagnostics
2011–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Charles Brennan for the section on Bioactives and Nutraceuticals
2012–2016 Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Michael Iba for the section on Molecular Toxicology
2012–2014 Section Editor-in-Chief: Professor Roger A. Coulombe, Jr. for the section on Molecular Toxicology
2012–2016 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–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kurt A. Jellinger for the section on Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics”, Topic “Molecular Pathology
2017–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stephen A. Bustin for the section on Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics, Topic “Molecular Diagnostics
2017–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Xiaofeng Jia for the section on Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics, Topic “Molecular Therapeutics
2017–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert for the section on Biomaterial Sciences
2017–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ian A. Nicholls for the section on Molecular Biophysics
2017–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Maurizio Battino for the section on Bioactives and Nutraceuticals
2018–2023 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Paschalis Alexandridis for the section on Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics
2018–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Antonio Rescifina for the section on Molecular Informatics
2018–present 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
2019–2022 Section Editor-in-Chief: 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–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreas Burkovski for the section on Molecular Microbiology
2019–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Antonio Pisani for the section on Molecular Neurobiology
2019–present 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
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