[2] The two served as the first editors and the journal was initially published by the Liverpool University Press.

[2] From 1913, it was published in conjunction with Cambridge University Press, with William Bayliss and Arthur Harden chairing the editorial board; the original title of The Bio-Chemical Journal[3] became The Biochemical Journal at that date.

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There are more than 100 that have been cited more than 1000 times each, and the following have been cited more than 5000 times each: The journal is abstracted and indexed in Elsevier Biobase, BIOSIS Previews, CAB International, Chemical Abstracts Service, Current Contents, Embase, International Food Information Service, MEDLINE/Index Medicus, ProQuest databases, and the Science Citation Index.