Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biochemistry and biophysics. It was established in 1959 by Academic Press and is currently published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Wolfgang Baumeister (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.575.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Biological Abstracts • Chemical Abstracts Service • Current Contents/Life Sciences • EMBASE/Excerpta Medica • EMBiology • MEDLINE/Index Medicus • Science Citation Index • Scopus