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Database (journal)

Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation is an online peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes research on biological databases and biocuration.

Last revised
Jun 13, 2026
Read time
≈ 1 min
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268 w
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3
Source
Database
Disciplinecomputational biology, bioinformatics
LanguageEnglish
Edited byDavid Landsman
Publication details
History2009–present
Publisher
Yes
3.6 (2024)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt· Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt· MathSciNet (alt Paid subscription required)
ISO 4Database
NLMDatabase (Oxford)
Indexing
CODEN (alt· JSTOR (alt· LCCN (alt)
MIAR · NLM (alt· Scopus · W&L
CODENDATAFX
ISSN1758-0463
OCLC no.457251105
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Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation is an online peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes research on biological databases and biocuration.1

The journal was established in 2009 with David Landsman as editor-in-chief. It is the official journal of the International Society for Biocuration and has published proceedings from the International Biocuration Conference since its inception.2

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed, the Science Citation Index Expanded, and Chemical Abstracts. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had an impact factor of 3.451 in 2020,3 and 3.6 in 2024.

References

References

  1. Landsman, David; Gentleman, Robert; Kelso, Janet; Ouellette, Benoit F. F. (2009). "DATABASE: A new forum for biological databases and curation". Database (Oxford). 2009 bap002. doi:10.1093/database/bap002. PMC 2790300. PMID 20157475.
  2. Gaudet, Pascale; Arighi, Cecilia; Bastian, Fabien; Bateman, Alex; Blake, Judith A.; Cherry, J. Michael; D'Eustachio, Peter; Finn, Robert; Giglio, Michelle; Hirschman, Lynette; Kania, Robert; Klimke, William; Martin, Maria J.; Karsch-Mizrachi, Ilene; Munoz-Torres, Monica; Natale, Deanna; O'Donovan, Claire; Ouellette, B.F. Francis; Pruitt, Kim D.; Robinson-Rechavi, Marc; Sansone, Susanna-Assunta; Schofield, Paul; Sutton, Glen; Van Auken, Kimberly; Vasudevan, Sravanthi; Wu, Carol; Young, Jessica; Mazumder, Raja (2012). "Recent advances in biocuration: meeting report from the Fifth International Biocuration Conference". Database (Oxford). 2012 bas036. doi:10.1093/database/bas036. PMC 3483532. PMID 23110974.
  3. "Database". 2020 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2021.
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