RSC Chemical Biology
Exceptionally significant findings in chemical biology.
Editor-in-Chief: Hiroaki Suga
Open Access: Gold

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ISSN 2633-0679
Indexed in: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed Central, Scopus, Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index
Journal Impact factor
3.1 (2024)
First decision time (all)
21 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
40 days
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Luc Brunsveld
Eindhoven University of Technology
Christopher Chang
Princeton University
Peng Chen
Peking University
Benjamin Davis
University of Oxford
Paul Dyson
EPFL
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FMP Berlin
Haian Fu
Emory University
Christian Hackenberger
Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
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ETH Zürich
Guifang Jia
Peking University
May Khanna
New York University
Laura Kiessling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Yamuna Krishnan
University of Chicago
Lei Liu
Tsinghua University
Chudi Ndubaku
ORIC Pharmaceuticals
Hermen Overkleeft
Leiden University
Jennifer Prescher
University of California
Christopher Schofield
University of Oxford
Pamela Silver
Harvard Medical School
Giulio Superti-Furga
Medical University of Vienna
Xiu-Jie Wang
CAS
Kira Weissman
Lorraine University
Jin Zhang
University of California San Diego
Xiang Zhou
Wuhan University
Anna Rulka
Executive Editor
Viktoria Titmus
Editorial Production Manager
Zareena Saleem
Assistant Editor
Michael Whitelaw
Assistant Editor
Alexander Whiteside
Assistant Editor
Samantha Campos
Editorial Assistant
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