title: Journal of Molecular Recognition
text: # 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.
  