Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
# Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

The Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal in the fields of biology and medicine, edited and published monthly by the Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica (ABDC), a federation of Brazilian scientific societies comprising:

* Sociedade Brasileira de Biofísica
* Sociedade Brasileira de Farmacologia e Terapêutica Experimental
* Sociedade Brasileira de Fisiologia
* Sociedade Brasileira de Imunologia
* Sociedade Brasileira de Investigação Clínica
* Sociedade Brasileira de Neurociências e Comportamento

It is now published as part of the Scientific Electronic Library (SciELO) project.

## History

The journal was established in 1968 by Michel Jamra as Revista Brasileira de Pesquisas Médicas e Biológicas, published in Portuguese. It obtained its current title in 1981, when ABDC assumed its publication, accepting papers in English only. The initial editors-in-chief were Lewis Joel Greene, Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, and Sérgio Henrique Ferreira (Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto). Of the original three, only Greene remains as editor.

## Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

* MEDLINE
* Index Medicus
* Science Citation Index
* SciELO
* Current Contents/Life Sciences
* Biological Abstracts
* Excerpta Medica
* PsycINFO
* LILACS
