Communications Biology

Not to be confused with Nature Communications.

Communications Biology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering research in biology. It was established in 2018 and is published by Nature Portfolio. It is a sister journal to Communications Physics and Communications Chemistry.^[1]

Communications Biology

Discipline	Biology
Language	English
Edited by	Christina Karlsson Rosenthal
Publication details
History	2018–present
Publisher	Nature Portfolio
Frequency	Continuous, upon acceptance
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons licenses
Impact factor	5.2 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Commun. Biol.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	CBOIDQ
ISSN	2399-3642
LCCN	2018243098
OCLC no.	1023437316
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

As of 2024^[update] the editor-in-chief is Christina Karlsson Rosenthal.^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews
• CAB abstracts
• Current Contents/Life Sciences
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Scopus
• The Zoological Record

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 5.9, ranking it 12th out of 92 journals in the category "Biology".^[3]

See also

• Nature
• Nature Communications
• Scientific Reports