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Nature Portfolio · ISSN 2399-3642

Communications Biology impact factor, and the open numbers behind it.

Short answer

The Journal Impact Factor is a licensed Clarivate metric, so we do not reproduce it. The closest open equivalent is OpenAlex's two-year mean citedness: 6.66 citations per paper for Communications Biology, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

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Key metrics

Two-year mean citedness
6.66Citations per paper, papers from the two prior yearsSource: OpenAlex
h-index
141Across all yearsSource: OpenAlex
Papers in 2025
1,99411,090 in totalSource: OpenAlex
Access
OpenAPC about $4,190Source: OpenAlex
Output

Papers per year.

How many works Communications Biology published in each complete year, as indexed by OpenAlex.

01,0002,0003,00020192020202120222023202420251,994

Fig. 1 — Works per year from OpenAlex. Retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Scope

What Communications Biology publishes.

Mostly Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Most frequent research topics in OpenAlex.

Alternatives

Journals with a similar citation profile.

JournalTwo-year mean citednessh-indexAccess
Communications Biology6.66141Open
JCB6.72597Subscription
Bioinformatics6.51560Open
Oncogene6.84423Subscription
Cells6.88233Open
Questions

About Communications Biology.

Comment 1What is the Communications Biology impact factor?
Response

The Journal Impact Factor is a licensed Clarivate metric, so we do not reproduce it. The closest open equivalent is OpenAlex's two-year mean citedness: 6.66 citations per paper for Communications Biology, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Comment 2Is Communications Biology open access?
Response

Yes, Communications Biology is fully open access, with an article processing charge of about $4,190.

Comment 3How many papers does Communications Biology publish a year?
Response

OpenAlex records 1,994 works in 2025, and 11,090 in total.

Sources

  1. 1. OpenAlex source record · retrieved 23 Oct 2026

The Journal Impact Factor is a Clarivate metric and is not reproduced here.

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