Communications Biology

*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	5.9 (2022)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Commun. Biol.
Indexing;
CODEN	CBOIDQ
ISSN	2399-3642;
LCCN	2018243098
OCLC no.	1023437316
Links
	Journal homepage; Online archive;

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]

As of 2022^[update] the acting editor-in-chief is Christina Karlsson Rosenthal.^[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

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]

^ "Introducing Communications Biology". Communications Biology. 1: 9. 2018. doi:10.1038/s42003-017-0012-4. PMC 6053079. PMID 30271896.
^ "Editors". Communications Biology. Nature Publishing Group. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Biology". 2022 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2023.