Talk:Journal of Biological Chemistry

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Some sources[edit]

Some sources for the upcoming collaboration:

That should be enough to be going on with! Carcharoth 22:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

open access article that touches on the technical aspect of the journal. John Vandenberg 05:15, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
paper about bringing the journal "online" in 1995. John Vandenberg 05:28, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some links[edit]

Initial associate editors:

Publishers:

Other:

1920 editorial board:

More to follow... Carcharoth 23:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

More editorial people and other snippets:

Associate editors help to carry the load from the 1950s onwards:

First women on the editorial board:

Final two editors

  • William Howard Stein - seventh editor, from 1968 to 1971, though disabled by illness in 1969.
  • Herbert Tabor - eighth editor, from 1971 to the present day (so it seems he is now the record holder in terms of length of editorship - the Edsall article was written in 1980 when Tabor had only served 9 years)

An important point to make is that despite growing massively in size from its beginnings in 1905, the journal has remained a general journal of biochemistry, and has avoided splitting into subjournals. All the above notes were gathered from the "first 75 years" link given at the beginning of the page, to the article written by John Tileston Edsall. Two areas from that paper that I haven't read yet are the 'scientific discoveries' history at the end of Edsall's article, and the 1905-1914 history by Richards (the second editor) that is an appendix to the Edsall article. Carcharoth 00:23, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article[edit]

Matsudaira P SEQUENCE FROM PICOMOLE QUANTITIES OF PROTEINS ELECTROBLOTTED ONTO POLYVINYLIDENE DIFLUORIDE MEMBRANES JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 262 (21): 10035-10038 JUL 25 1987 is cited over 4000 times.--Stone 07:44, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's great! Is there a good online resource for finding the most cited papers, or do you have to have access to a university subscription to a database? Carcharoth 13:15, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
University access! Sorry!--Stone 14:37, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ah well. Maybe there is Wikipedia page to request searches? Carcharoth 15:16, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange may help .. John Vandenberg 15:31, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oldest biochemical journal in English?[edit]

I believe JBC was the 1st biochemical journal in English, eg see [1], but I don't have a definitive reference. Another early English one which is definitely newer is the Biochemical Journal (first appeared 1906). There are older German language ones, eg Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitscrift für physiologische Chemie (1877) and Hofmeister's Beiträge (1901). Does anyone have any info to confirm or refute this claim? Espresso Addict 22:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I found this, which says:

"Moore and another Liverpool biochemist, Edward Whitney, founded the Biochemical Journal in 1906, a year after the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The oldest biochemical journal, Hoppe-Seyler’s Zeitschrift für Physiologishe Chemie, started in 1877. The Biochemical Journal was taken over by the Biochemical Society in 1913."

That confirms that Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie was the oldest, and it is cited as the inspiration for Journal of Biological Chemistry. The accounts of its founding also talk about the "The joint effort to promote the new science of biochemistry in the United States", so I get the impression that this was the first biochemistry journal in the USA at least. The Edsall article (from which much of the preceding sections were drawn) says:

"other contemporary researchers drew an increasing number of investigators into biochemical studies. There were outlets for publication of such work in physiological, chemical, and sometimes in clinical journals. There, however, the biochemical papers were surrounded by a much larger number of papers of little or no biochemical interest. The demand for new outlets grew. In the years 1905 and 1906, Carl Neuberg inaugurated a second German Journal, the Biochemische Zeitschrift. Benjamin Moore in Great Britain founded the Biochemical Journal, and Herter and Abel established the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Indeed, the American Journal preceded the British one by about a year."

That quote describes an explosion of new biochemistry journals in a second wave after the oldest one (note that the German one is still only the second one, which may conflict with the Beiträge zur chemischen Physiologie und Pathologie example you point out). If you are looking for a DYK hook, I'd suggest "...that the Journal of Biological Chemistry, founded in the USA in 1906, was inspired by the German Zeitscrift für physiologische Chemie (1877), the world's oldest biochemistry journal." or maybe just pick up on the "three Nobel Prize winners" have served on its editorial board bit, or the Rockefeller Institute bit? Carcharoth 22:47, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I found a better quote, from the letter sent out to those who were being asked to be the founding editors: "Dr. Herter and I have decided that the time has arrived for the establishment in this country of a Journal of Biological Chemistry". This conclusively implies that it was the first in the USA. Apparently, before this journal appeared, biochemistry research in the US had been appearing in the American Journal of Physiology. Carcharoth 22:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

copyright renewal[edit]

An interesting aspect of American journals is that they may not have filed copyright renewals as required, or may have only filed them for specific issues/articles. It appears that Journal of Biological Chemistry definitely filed some. John Vandenberg 04:22, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Best JBC article...[edit]

...written by a Wikipedian. [2] Wow! --JayHenry 05:14, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The ISSN and eISSN numbers are not traceable from[edit]

the journal home website--222.64.31.250 (talk) 23:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The journal website is not traceable other than its URL--222.64.209.227 (talk) 23:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You seems to be jocking. The ISSN is issued by the International ISSN centre in Paris and also the CODEN does not need to be available on a journals site, since the ISSN/CODEN is not issued by the journal itself. My advice to you: please do not trust to all facts that only are accessible by searching with google. Hope you can read also books, and hopefully you are able to go to a library and know how use and seach in a "real library". Maybe that helps to give you evidence....., but I guess not....--Steven69 (talk) 22:02, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Request[edit]

The JBC has a new Editor-in-Chief:

Martha Fedor stepped down in mid 2015. Fred Guengerich assumed interim editor in chief duties until a new EIC was found. - http://www.newswise.com/articles/journal-of-biological-chemistry-names-interim-editor-in-chief2

Lila M. Gierasch has been appointed as the new EIC. She begins her term in July. - http://www.jbc.org/site/misc/eic.xhtml

Also, the cover image used on the side bar could be updated to the most recent version of the JBC, which can be found on the home page - http://www.jbc.org/

The link for the image is - http://www.jbc.org/content/291/15.cover.gif

--Echaulk (talk) 18:48, 13 April 2016 (UTC)Erik[reply]

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