Journal of Molecular Recognition
# Journal of Molecular Recognition

The Journal of Molecular Recognition is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original research papers and reviews describing molecular recognition phenomena in biology. The current editor-in-chief is Marc H. V. van Regenmortel (École supérieure de biotechnologie Strasbourg). It was established in 1988 and is published by John Wiley & Sons.

## Abstracting and indexing

Journal of Molecular Recognition is abstracted and indexed in:

* Elsevier BIOBASE
* Biochemistry & Biophysics Citation Index
* Biological Abstracts
* BIOSIS Previews
* Chemical Abstracts Service
* Current Contents/Life Sciences
* Index Medicus/MEDLINE
* METADEX
* ProQuest
* Science Citation Index

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.137, ranking it 53rd out of 72 journals in the category "Biophysics" and 247th out of 297 journals in the category "Biochemistry & Molecular Biology".

## Highest cited papers

According to the Web of Science, the most-cited articles of this journal are:

* "'Automated docking of flexible ligands: Applications of AutoDock", Volume 9, Issue 1, Jan-Feb 1996, Pages: 1–5, Goodsell DS, Morris GM, Olson AJ.
* "Improving biosensor analysis", Volume 12, Issue 5, Sep-Oct 1999, Pages: 279–284, Myszka DG.
* "Reversible and irreversible immobilization of enzymes on Graphite Fibrils(TM)", Volume 9, Issue 5–6, Sep-Dec 1996, Pages: 383–388, Dong LW, Fischer AB, Lu M, et al.
* "Isothermal titration calorimetry and differential scanning calorimetry as complementary tools to investigate the energetics of biomolecular recognition", Volume 12, Issue 1, Jan-Feb 1999, Pages: 3–18, Jelesarov I, Bosshard HR.
