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• http://www.embojournal.org
• Editor: Professor Pernille Rørth
• Volume 28: 24 issues per year
• ISSN: 0261-4189
• EISSN: 1460-2075
• Impact factor : 8.295*
• Impact ranking: 19/157 in Cell Biology, 20/276 in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology*
• Date Established: 1982
• Published on behalf of: European Molecular Biology Organization

Aims and Scope:
The EMBO Journal provides for rapid publication of full-length papers describing original research of general rather than specialist interest in molecular biology and related areas. The journal encourages and publishes articles that report novel findings of wide biological significance in the areas of: development, immunology, neuroscience, plant biology, structural biology, genomic and computational biology, genome stability and dynamics, chromatin and transcription, RNA, proteins, cellular metabolism, signal transduction, cell cycle, differentiation and death, cell and tissue architecture, membranes and transport, microbiology and pathogens, and molecular biology of disease.

Readership: For all molecular biologists.

Online features and site license access:

• Online archive available back to January 1997.
• A site licence provides access to all content published during the supply period. Archive content is freely available after 12 months.
• Special web focus issues have included a Focus on Imaging.
• Indexed in Medline (PubMed), Excerpta Medica, CAS, BIOSIS, CAB Abstract, CAB Animal Breeding Abstracts, CAB AgBiotech News and Information, CAB Plant Breeding Abstracts, Science Citation Index Expanded, ISI Alerting Services, Biotechnology Citation Index, Biochemistry & Biophysics Citation Index and Current Contents Life Sciences.

*2008 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2009)