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Biochemical Genetics (journal)

academic journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ60786228 ↗
Source-derived summary

Biochemical Genetics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering molecular biology as it relates to genetics. It was established in 1967 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 1.6.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in major bibliographic databases, including Science Citation Index Expanded, Journal Citation Reports, MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, BIOSIS Previews, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), and Current Contents/Life Sciences.

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The public source identifies “Biochemical Genetics (journal)” as academic journal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Biochemical, Genetics and journal.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Biochemical, Genetics and journal providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q60786228. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Biochemical Genetics (journal)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.