Communications Biology

{{distinguish|Nature Communications}}

{{Infobox journal

| title = Communications Biology

| image = Communications_Biology_(Nature_Portfolio)_journal_cover.png

| formernames =

| abbreviation = Commun. Biol.

| discipline = Biology

| editor = Christina Karlsson Rosenthal

| publisher = Nature Portfolio

| country =

| history = 2018–present

| frequency = Continuous, upon acceptance

| openaccess = Yes

| license = Creative Commons licenses

| impact = 5.2

| impact-year = 2023

| ISSN =

| eISSN = 2399-3642

| CODEN = CBOIDQ

| JSTOR =

| LCCN = 2018243098

| OCLC = 1023437316

| website = http://www.nature.com/commsbio/index.html

| link1 =

| link1-name =

| link2 = http://www.nature.com/commsbio/archive/date.html

| link2-name = 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.{{cite journal |author= |date=2018 |title=Introducing Communications Biology |journal=Communications Biology |volume=1 |issue= |page=9 |doi=10.1038/s42003-017-0012-4|pmid=30271896 |pmc=6053079 }}

{{As of|2024}} the editor-in-chief is Christina Karlsson Rosenthal.{{cite web |title=Editors |url=https://www.nature.com/commsbio/editors |access-date=2024-11-17 |work=Communications Biology |publisher=Nature Publishing Group}}

==Abstracting and indexing==

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

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

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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".{{cite book |year=2023 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Biology |title=2022 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate |edition=Science |series=Web of Science}}