title: The EMBO Journal
text: # 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.
  
  