Journal History
| 2000 | Inaugural issue released, initially 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 2018 | IJMS established the following sections: |
| 2019 | IJMS adopted a semi-monthly publication schedule. IJMS established the section “Molecular Role of Xenobiotics”. IJMS published its 20,000th paper. IJMS became an affiliated journal of the following societies: |
| 2022 |
IJMS has established the following section:
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Editors-in-Chief
| 2000–2001 | Founding 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 |
| 2007 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Claude A. Daul for Section “Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry” |
| 2007–2009 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael N. Hall for Section “Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics” |
| 2007 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert for Section “Material Sciences and Nanotechnology” |
| 2010–2011 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Andrei Alexandrescu for Section “Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics” |
| 2009–2011 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mark Cronin for Section “Molecular Toxicology” |
| 2009 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mark L. Richter for Section “Muscle Contraction” |
| 2008 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Claire Hellio for Section “Green Chemistry” |
| 2008 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kurt A. Jellinger for Section “Molecular Pathology” |
| 2008 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ian A. Nicholls for Section “Molecular Recognition” |
| 2009 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stephen A. Bustin for Section “Molecular Diagnostics” |
| 2011–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Charles Brennan for Section “Bioactives and Nutraceuticals” |
| 2012–2016 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Michael Iba for Section “Molecular Toxicology” |
| 2012–2014 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Professor Roger A. Coulombe, Jr. for Section “Molecular Toxicology” |
| 2012–2016 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mark L. Richter for Section “Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics” |
| 2017 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Claire Hellio for Section “Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology” |
| 2017–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Guido R.M.M. Haenen for Section “Molecular Toxicology” |
| 2017–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kurt A. Jellinger for Section “Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics”, Topic “Molecular Pathology” |
| 2017–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stephen A. Bustin for Section “Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics”, Topic “Molecular Diagnostics” |
| 2017–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Xiaofeng Jia for Section “Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics”, Topic “Molecular Therapeutics” |
| 2017–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert for Section “Biomaterial Sciences” |
| 2017–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ian A. Nicholls for Section “Molecular Biophysics” |
| 2017–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Maurizio Battino for Section “Bioactives and Nutraceuticals” |
| 2018–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Antonio Rescifina for Section "Molecular Informatics" |
| 2018–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Paschalis Alexandridis for Section “Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics” |
| 2018–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jeffrey L. Platt for Section “Molecular Immunology” |
| 2019–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Michael Welsh for Section "Molecular Oncology" |
| 2019–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. José L. Quiles for Section "Molecular Role of Xenobiotics" |
| 2019–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreas Burkovski for Section “Molecular Microbiology” |
| 2019–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Antonio Pisani for Section "Molecular Neurobiology" |
| 2019–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Maurizio Margaglione for Section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics" |
| 2019–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Dongho Kim for Section “Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics” |
| 2020 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Bamin Khomami for Section “Macromolecules” |
| 2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Eric Vallender for Section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics" |
| 2021–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Manfredi Rizzo for Section "Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism" |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yuri Lyubchenko for Section "Molecular Nanoscience" Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. José L. Quiles for the section on "Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism" |
