Journal History
| 2010 | The inaugural issue was released. JFB was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2014 | JFB was indexed in PubMed - National Library of Medicine (NLM). JFB published its 100th paper. |
| 2017 | JFB announced the first edition of the Travel Award. |
| 2018 | JFB was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 9 (Issue 3). |
| 2019 | JFB received its first CiteScore (2019) of (4.1). |
| 2020 | JFB received a new CiteScore (2020) of (7.3). |
| 2021 | JFB was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| JFB published its 500th paper. | |
| JFB announced the first Highly Cited Paper Award. | |
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JFB established the following sections: Bone Biomaterials; |
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| 2022 | JFB received a new CiteScore (2021) of 10.0, ranked Q1 in "Biomedical Engineering". JFB received its first Impact Factor (4.901), ranked Q2 in "Engineering, Biomedical" and "Materials Science, Biomaterials". |
| 2023 | JFB adopted a monthly publication schedule. JFB received its 2022 Impact Factor (4.8), ranked 32/96 in "Engineering, Biomedical" and 20/45 in "Materials Science, Biomaterials". JFB received its 2022 CiteScore (5.0), ranked 110/277 in "Biomedical Engineering" and 61/125 in "Biomaterials". |
| 2024 | JFB received its 2023 Impact Factor (5.0), ranked 27/123 in "Engineering, Biomedical" and 18/53 in "Materials Science, Biomaterials". JFB received its 2023 CiteScore (4.6), ranked 144/303 in "Biomedical Engineering" and 78/137 in "Biomaterials". |
| 2025 | JFB was indexed in Ei Compendex, starting with Volume 16 (Issue 3). JFB received its 2024 Impact Factor (5.2), ranked 28/124 in "Engineering, Biomedical" and 21/55 in "Materials Science, Biomaterials". JFB received its 2024 CiteScore (6.8), ranked 102/323 in "Biomedical Engineering" and 56/140 in "Biomaterials". |
| 2026 | JFB received its 2025 Impact Factor (5.9), ranked 30/130 in "Engineering, Biomedical" and 19/58 in "Materials Science, Biomaterials". JFB received its 2025 CiteScore (9.7), ranked 66/342 in "Biomedical Engineering" and 37/146 in "Biomaterials". |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2010–2023 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Francesco Puoci (Founding Editor) |
| 2023–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Pankaj Vadgama |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2021–2023 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. John G. Hardy for the section on Biomaterials and Devices for Healthcare Applications |
| 2021–2026 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gianrico Spagnuolo for the section on Dental Biomaterials |
| 2021–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. John H.T. Luong for the section on Antibacterial Biomaterials Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Daniel X.B. Chen for the section on Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Serena Danti for the section on Biomaterials for Cancer Therapies |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Li Ren for the section on Synthesis of Biomaterials via Advanced Technologies |
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