Abstract
A brief historic overview and analysis is presented of the almost 9000 scientific articles that have appeared in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (JIB) and its predecessor (Bioinorganic Chemistry), since 1973. This overview has a focus on the different topics, in particular on the different elements of the Periodic Table and on papers that have received very large numbers of citations. Over the whole period, copper has been the element occurring in most publications (almost 1800, which is 20%), followed by iron which occurs in some 12% of all papers. Other favorite elements are zinc, platinum and ruthenium. The worldwide origin of papers published in JIB has been analyzed as well, showing a quite evenly worldwide distribution, with just a few exceptions. Trends in selected scientific topics over time (first 10 years; last 25 years, last 10 years) are also discussed. Also authors and institutes with the largest number of papers published in JIB have been detected. The numerical information is based on an analysis of the Web of Science with a cutoff date around July 1, 2020.
Highlights
At a golden jubilee of an important journal it is worthwhile to look at the accomplishments of the past, and to look ahead
A few years after my own PhD (1968) I started to become interested in the role of metal ions in living systems, be it the natural role, the curing role, or the application of bioinorganic principles in materials, catalysis and the environment
For a few calendar years Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (JIB) had a few hundreds of conference papers included in a special issue of JIB, like in 2001 and 2003; these abstracts were largely taken from ICBIC con ferences
Summary
At a golden jubilee of an important journal it is worthwhile to look at the accomplishments of the past, and to look ahead. First of all congratulations are due to the present editor, who has been serving the journal for almost 25 years, to the publishers and congratulations to the groups of authors that have been sending regularly some of their best papers to the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (JIB). After the start of a Gordon Research Conference series, in 1962, initially called “Metals and Metal Binding in Biology” and in 1978 renamed to “Metals in Biology”, several initiatives for workshops, meetings, summer schools and journals started world wide It lasted till 1983 before the first “International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry” (abbreviated as ICBIC; for the first two decades called “International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry”) was held JIB has kept its strong position for a long period, as will be illustrated below
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