About this journal
Aims and scope
Communicative & Integrative Biology is a multidisciplinary Open Access journal focused on understanding biological organisms as systems integrated via bio-communication. The journal explores every level of biological organization from subcellular organelles to societies, and encompasses animal, plant, and microbial communication, as well as signaling, cognition, consciousness, evolution, ecology, and behavioral ecology.
Organismal behavior is based on integrated sensory systems. These provide organisms with positive and negative experiences and memories, allowing active and effective adaptation to an ever-changing environment. Intraorganismal communication and integrated signaling underly the development, polarity and morphogenesis of multicellular organisms. Moreover, stress adaptation, pathogenesis, parasitism, immunity, symbiosis, mutualism and other types of interorganismal interactions are also based on various modes of biological communication.
Communicative & Integrative Biology welcomes manuscripts discussing novel research and developing trends in biological sciences. The journal accepts the following articles types:
- Original Research Papers
- Short Reports
- Reviews
- Opinion Papers
- Commentaries
Journal metrics
Usage
- 238K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 3.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.596 (2023) SNIP
- 0.511 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 36 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 36 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 74% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
František Baluška - University of Bonn, Germany, [email protected]
Jonathan Delafield-Butt - University of Strathclyde, UK
Editorial BoardSujit Basu - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US
Lars Chittka - University of London, London, UK
Chulhee Choi - Daejeon, KR
Mirza Hasanuzzaman - Sher-e-Blangla Agricultural University, BD
Berthold Hedwig - University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Martin Heil - CINVESTAV - Irapuato, Irapuato, GT, MX
Manfred Heinlein - Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg Cedex, FR
Duncan E. Jackson - University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Mustapha Kandouz - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, US
Fred Keijzer - University of Groningen, Groningen, NL
Laurent Keller - University of Lausanne, Lausanne, CH
Minna-Maarit Kytöviita - Jyväskylä University -FI
Simcha Lev-Yadun - University of Haifa-Oranim - Tivon, IL
Jinxing Lin - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN
Tingsong Liu - The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc., Ardmore, OK, US
Ken Lukowiak - University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, CA
Massimo Micaroni - University of Goteborg, SE
Paul Ode - North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, US
Paul W. Paré - Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, US
Lisa A. Parr - Emory University, Atlanta, GA, US
Vincent Piguet - University Hospital and Medical School of Geneva, Geneva, CH
Daniel Robert - University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Florian P. Schiestl - University of Zürich, Zürich, CH
Benoît Schoefs - University of Dijon, Dijon Cedex, FR
Barry Scott - Massey University - Palmerston North, NZ
Tony Trewavas - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh UK
Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh - University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Gerhard von der Emde - University of Bonn, Bonn, DE
Yang Wang - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, US
Norbert Weiss - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology; Hotchkiss Brain Institute; University of Calgary, Calgary, CA
Valerie M. Williamson - University of California, Davis, CA, US
Daniel Wipf - Université de Bourgogne,Dijon Cedex, FR
N. Wood - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US
Jiarui Wu - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, CN
Hong-Wei Xue - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, CN
Viktor Zársky´ - Charles University, Prague, CZ
Lian-Hui Zhang - Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Proteos, SG
Abstracting and indexing
Indexing
- CABI
- DOAJ
- EBSCOhost
- PubMed Central (PMC)
- Scopus
- Zoological Record Online
Open access
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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