Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Aims & Scope

Current Opinion in Structural Biology (COSB) aims to stimulate scientifically grounded, interdisciplinary, multi-scale debate and exchange of ideas.

It contains polished, concise and timely reviews and opinions, with particular emphasis on those articles published in the past two years.

In addition to describing recent trends, the authors are encouraged to give their subjective opinion of the topics discussed.

In COSB, we help the reader by providing in a systematic manner: 1.

The views of experts on current advances in their field in a clear and readable form. 2.

Evaluations of the most interesting papers, annotated by experts, from the great wealth of original publications. [...] The subject of Structural Biology is divided into twelve themed sections, each of which is reviewed once a year.

Each issue contains two sections, and the amount of space devoted to each section is related to its importance. -Folding and Binding- Nucleic acids and their protein complexes- Macromolecular Machines- Theory and Simulation- Sequences and Topology- New constructs and expression of proteins- Membranes- Engineering and Design- Carbohydrate-protein interactions and glycosylation- Biophysical and molecular biological methods- Multi-protein assemblies in signalling- Catalysis and Regulation

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	7
2024	6.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	758

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	3495

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.908

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	223

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Structural and sequence-based classification of glycoside hydrolases

  Citation: 1350

  Authors: Bernard, Gideon

• The leucine-rich repeat as a protein recognition motif

  Citation: 1348

  Authors: B

• Zinc finger proteins: new insights into structural and functional diversity

  Citation: 1255

  Authors: John H, Brian M, Peter E

• Coupling of folding and binding for unstructured proteins

  Citation: 1148

  Authors: H.Jane, Peter E

• Theory of protein folding

  Citation: 1123

  Authors: José Nelson, Peter G

• DNA condensation

  Citation: 1025

  Authors: Victor A

• Hidden Markov models

  Citation: 986

  Authors: Sean R

• Macromolecular crowding: an important but neglected aspect of the intracellular environment

  Citation: 971

  Authors: R.John

• Amyloid fibrillogenesis: themes and variations

  Citation: 959

  Authors: Jean-Christophe, Peter T

• Steered molecular dynamics and mechanical functions of proteins

  Citation: 928

  Authors: Barry, Mu, Klaus

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