Communications Engineering

Communications Engineering is a selective, multidisciplinary open access journal from the Nature Portfolio covering all fields of engineering, launched in January 2022 with Rosamund Daw as Editor-in-Chief and a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.0《通讯-工程》（Communications Engineering）是（Nature Portfolio）旗下选择性多学科开放获取期刊，覆盖工程学各领域，2022 年 1 月创刊，主编为（Rosamund Daw），2025 年影响因子为 7.0。

Scope

• The journal publishes research across all engineering fields and brings together the whole engineering community该刊发表覆盖工程学各领域的研究，面向整个工程学界。
• It reports advances that have strong potential to open up new engineering opportunity, capability or benefit期刊报道具有开辟新的工程机会、能力或效益潜力的进展。
• Applied science contributions that create new and valuable insight towards solving engineering problems are equally accepted同样接收能为解决工程问题提供新洞见的应用科学论文。
• Traditional strengths such as energy, electronics, artificial intelligence and biomedical engineering are supported能源、电子、人工智能与生物医学工程等传统优势方向得到支持。
• Fields less covered by the Nature research journals, including chemical and civil engineering, are also welcomed期刊还欢迎（Nature）系列研究期刊较少涉及的领域，包括化学工程与土木工程。
• Content includes research articles, reviews and comment and analysis pieces such as Research Highlights, Q&A and Viewpoints内容包括研究论文、综述，以及研究亮点、问答与观点等评论与分析类文章。

History

• The journal was announced in January 2022 as the first journal in the Nature Portfolio with a broad multidisciplinary engineering focus该刊于 2022 年 1 月宣布创办，是（Nature Portfolio）中首本以广泛的多学科工程学为定位的期刊。
• Its first papers appeared in 2022 and it published 54 research papers in its first year, covering all the major engineering disciplines首批论文于 2022 年发表，创刊首年刊出 54 篇研究论文，覆盖各主要工程学科。
• It is a fully open access journal with an editorially selective model from launch该刊自创刊起即为完全开放获取期刊，并采用编辑选择机制。
• It is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index in engineering, multidisciplinary, where it ranks 10th among 178 journals, and in Scopus该刊被（Emerging Sources Citation Index）的多学科工程类别收录，在 178 种期刊中列第 10 位，并被（Scopus）收录。
• Its Journal Impact Factor is 7.0 in 2025, with a median of about 7 days to first editorial decision其 2025 年影响因子为 7.0，稿件至首次编辑决定的中位时间约为 7 天。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Rosamund Daw, a professional editor at the Nature Portfolio主编（Rosamund Daw）为（Nature Portfolio）的职业编辑。
• The editorial team is made up of professional editors who handle initial assessment and manage peer review编辑团队由职业编辑组成，负责稿件初评与同行评审的组织。
• Every research paper is editorially selected to offer new thinking with impact for a specialist engineering community每篇研究论文都经编辑遴选，要求能为特定工程共同体带来有影响力的新思考。
• Research content is peer reviewed, and a range of non-research formats is used to engage the community研究内容经同行评审，期刊并用多种非研究体裁与学界互动。
• Work supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, such as resilient infrastructure, water purification and digital technologies, is a stated priority期刊明确优先考虑有助于联合国可持续发展目标的研究，如韧性基础设施、水净化与数字技术。