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2000	Inaugural issue released, initially published as a quarterly journal.
2003	Changed to a monthly publication schedule.
2004	Covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).
2005	First Impact Factor received.
2006	IJMS became the first MDPI journal to start using the submission system at submit.mdpi.org (no longer available).
2007	The following topical sections were setup: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Nutraceuticals and Chemopreventives (later renamed Bioactives and Nutraceuticals), Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Material Sciences and Nanotechnology, Molecular Pathology, and 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 covered in PubMed. The journal was moved from www.mpdi.org onto the publishing platform at www.mdpi.com in October 2008.
2009	IJMS sections on Molecular Toxicology, Muscle Contraction (discontinued after one year), Molecular Recognition, and Molecular Diagnostics were setup.
2010	IJMS switched to the new submission system at https://susy.mdpi.com/.
2011	IJMS Impact Factor, released in June 2011 more than 2.0.
2012	IJMS published more than 1'000 papers in one year for the first time, Impact Factor surpassed 2.5.
2013	IJMS sponsored the ILMAT conference.
2014	IJMS sponsored the following conferences:
	ISANH Polyphenols 2014, in Lisbon, Portugal Fifth International Hypothermia and Temperature Management Symposium, in Edinburgh, UK E-MRS 2014 Fall Meeting, in Warsaw, Poland XVII ENPER, in Italy The 25th tRNA Conference, in Peloponnese, Greece The 2014 BMES Annual Meeting , in Texas, FL, USA 2nd Protein-Protein Interaction Conference, in Boston, MA, USA IUFOST 2014, in Montreal, Quebec YABEC 2014 Meetting, in Taiwan
2015	IJMS section on Bioinorganic Chemistry was setup.
2015	IJMS sponsored the following conferences: The 12th Annual Molecular Diagnostics Conference qPCR & NGS 2015 Event 3rd ESTRO conference The 13th International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Health and Medical Sciences The 17th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry International Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food The 250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition Fifth International Conference on Advancement in Science and Technology IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society qPCR & Digital PCR Congress
2016	IJMS Impact Factor surpassed 3.2. • IJMS published more than 8,000 papers in total, and 200 papers in a single issue. • IJMS section on Molecular Botany was setup. • IJMS started the project of Translational Medicine was setup. • IJMS started the project of Young Investigator Prize and Travel Awards.
2016	IJMS sponsored the following conferences: • Unconventional Proteins and Membranes Traffic • Eighth International Congress on Biocatalysis 2016 • Comprehensive Cancer Center (Krebszentrum) Graz • Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) Satellite • The 252nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition • The Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH • 14th Annual Discovery on Target • SCS Spring Meeting
2017	IJMS published more than 10,000 papers in total. The IJMS first physical meeting was held, 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 Molecular Biophysics Biomaterial Sciences Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics Molecular Toxicology Bioinorganic Chemistry
2018	IJMS Impact Factor surpassed 3.6. IJMS set up following new 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

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-	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	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Guido R.M.M. Haenen for Section “Molecular Toxicology”
2017	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kurt A. Jellinger for Section “Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics”, Topic “Molecular Pathology”
2017	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stephen A. Bustin for Section “Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics”, Topic “Molecular Diagnostics”
2017	Section Editor-in-Chief: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Xiaofeng Jia for Section “Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics”, Topic “Molecular Therapeutics”
2017	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Andreas Taubert for Section “Biomaterial Sciences”
2017	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ian A. Nicholls for Section “Molecular Biophysics”
2017	Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Maurizio Battino for Section “Bioactives and Nutraceuticals”

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