Communications Biology

Communications Biology is a fully open access, online only journal from Nature Portfolio that published its first papers in January 2018 and covers research across all of biology, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.8.《通讯生物学》（Communications Biology）是（Nature Portfolio）旗下完全开放获取的纯在线期刊，2018 年 1 月发表首批论文，覆盖生物学各个分支，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.8。

Scope

• The journal accepts research that advances a specialised area of biology, without requiring the broad appeal demanded by Nature and Nature Communications.本刊接收推动某一专门领域进展的研究，不要求具备《自然》与《自然通讯》所要求的广泛吸引力。
• Coverage runs from molecular and cellular biology, genetics and biochemistry through neuroscience and immunology to ecology, evolution and plant science.覆盖范围从分子与细胞生物学、遗传学和生物化学，经神经科学与免疫学，延伸到生态学、演化生物学与植物科学。
• Methods and tools papers are considered on their usefulness even when they do not report a new biological discovery.方法与工具类论文即便未报告新的生物学发现，也可依其实用价值获得考虑。
• Reviews, Perspectives and Comments give the journal a commentary function that pure research outlets lack.综述、视角文章与评论，使本刊具备纯研究型期刊所缺少的评论功能。
• Reporting standards are enforced through the Nature Research Reporting Summary, required for all accepted papers.报道规范通过《自然》系列研究报告摘要执行，所有被录用的论文均须提交。
• Replication, reproducibility and statistical rigour are stated editorial priorities, and papers are assessed by professional editors rather than by academic editors alone.可重复性、再现性与统计学严谨性是期刊声明的编辑优先事项，论文由专职编辑而非仅由学术编辑评估。
• Collections group papers by theme, often curated by editorial board members, and provide a route for early career researchers to shape scope.专题合集按主题汇集论文，常由编委策划，也为早期职业研究者提供了参与塑造选题范围的途径。

History

• The journal launched in January 2018 as part of a Nature Research family of broad scope open access titles alongside Communications Chemistry and Communications Physics.本刊于 2018 年 1 月创刊，与《通讯化学》《通讯物理》同属（Nature Research）旗下的宽口径开放获取系列。
• Its founding rationale was that specialist work of high quality had few homes that were both broad in readership and selective in standards.其创刊理由在于，高质量的专门研究缺少既读者面宽、标准又严格的发表平台。^[1]
• Within one year the journal had published more than 240 research articles and eight review or commentary pieces.创刊一年内，本刊已发表 240 余篇研究论文与 8 篇综述或评论文章。^[2]
• Transparent peer review became an author option from January 2019, and the names of handling editors have been published since June 2021.自 2019 年 1 月起，透明同行评审成为作者可选项；自 2021 年 6 月起，每篇论文的处理编辑姓名予以公布。
• By its fifth anniversary the journal had published over 4,000 research articles, and its board had grown from eight members to 133 across 29 countries.至五周年时，本刊已发表 4000 余篇研究论文，编委从 8 位增至 133 位，分布于 29 个国家。^[3]
• The 2025 impact factor is 5.8, against 5.1 in 2024 and 6.548 in 2022, ranking ninth of 106 titles in biology.2025 年影响因子为 5.8，2024 年为 5.1，2022 年为 6.548，在生物学类 106 种期刊中位列第 9。

Editors

• Christina Karlsson Rosenthal is chief editor and leads a full-time in-house team of PhD level editors, which numbered eleven including two deputies by 2023.Christina Karlsson Rosenthal 担任主编，领导一支由博士级专职编辑组成的内部团队，至 2023 年该团队含两名副主编共 11 人。
• Academic editorial board members handle manuscripts jointly with the in-house editors, combining subject expertise with editorial consistency.学术编委与内部编辑共同处理稿件，将学科专长与编辑一致性结合起来。
• Section Lead editorial board members, introduced in 2022, take on additional responsibility for groups of subject areas.2022 年设立的分区首席编委，对一组学科领域承担更多责任。
• Board members are active researchers at different career stages, and the journal states diversity of gender, geography and subfield as an explicit recruitment criterion.编委为处于不同职业阶段的在职研究者，期刊明确把性别、地域与分支学科的多样性列为遴选标准。
• Authors may opt into transparent review, and about 69 percent did so in the first half of 2022.作者可选择透明评审，2022 年上半年约有 69% 的作者作出了这一选择。
• There is no pre-submission enquiry requirement, and the journal also maintains a standing call for reviewers to widen its referee pool.本刊不要求投稿前咨询，并长期公开征集审稿人以扩大评审队伍。