Journal of Peptide Science

The Journal of Peptide Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 1995 by John Wiley & Sons. The Journal of Peptide Science is a cooperative venture of John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and the European Peptide Society, and is published in twelve issues per year both online and in print.

The current Editor-in-Chief is John Jones from the Oxford University, UK.^[1]

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Impact factor and rank

The 2006 Impact Factor is 1.801. It is ranked number 179 out of 262 in the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology category, and number 26 out of 68 in the Analytical Chemistry category.^[2]

Highest cited papers

1. Review: 'The cyclization of peptides and depsipeptides', J. S. Davies 9(8):471-501 (2003). Cited 74 times ^[3].
2. Review: 'Antibacterial peptides isolated from insects', L. Otvos, Jr 6(10):497-511 (2000). Cited 67 times ^[3].
3. Research Article: 'Structural requirements for cellular uptake of alpha-helical amphipathic peptides', A. Scheller, J. Oehlke, B. Wiesner, M. Dathe, E.Krause, M. Beyermann, M. Melzig, M. Bienert 5(4)185-194 (1999). Cited 60 times ^[3].
4. Article: 'The use of Seldi ProteinChip (TM) arrays to monitor production of Alzheimer's beta-amyloid in transfected cells', B. M. Austen, E. R. Frears, H. Davies 6(9):459-469 (2000). Cited 49 times ^[3].

Abstracting and indexing information

The Journal of Peptide Science is indexed in the following services:^[1]

• Chemical Abstracts Service SciFinder (American Chemical Society)
• SCOPUS (Elsevier)
• Web of Science (Thomson ISI)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Wiley InterScience[1]
2. ^ Institute for Scientific Information, Journal Citation Reports, 2006
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Web of Science