The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, has announced that its journals Biochemistry and Journal of Medicinal Chemistry are among the '100 most influential journals in biology and medicine over the past 100 years,' as voted on by members of the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). SLA generated the list of 100 most influential journals as part of its 100th anniversary celebration. More than 400 journals competed in 64 different scientific categories.
Biochemistry began publishing in 1962. The journal has gained a reputation for very rigorous and fair peer review standards and for publishing exceptionally high-quality papers. The journal is among the three winners in the biochemistry category. The other winners are the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. The Journal of Medicinal Chemistry is one of two winners in the drug discovery category. The Journal of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics also won in this category.
SLA will reveal its top 10 journal picks, as well as the 'Journal of the Century,' during an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., on June 16. The complete list of 100 most influential journals is available online at http://units.sla.org/division/dbio/publications/resources/dbio100.html.
