The EMBO Journal
# The EMBO Journal

The EMBO Journal is a semi-monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on full-length papers describing original research of general interest in molecular biology and related areas. The editor-in-chief is Facundo D. Batista (Harvard Medical School).

## History

The journal was established in 1982 and was published by Nature Publishing Group on behalf of the European Molecular Biology Organization until the launch of EMBO Press in 2013.

## Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

* Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
* Biological Abstracts
* BIOSIS Previews
* CAB Abstracts
* Chemical Abstracts Service
* Current Contents/Life Sciences]]
* EBSCO databases
* Embase
* Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
* Science Citation Index Expanded
* Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 13.783.

