Journal profile · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-Physiology
Contact
ISSN 2515-2564 · SAGE Publishing · United States
Contact: fully open access; APC about USD 850; median 89 days to acceptance (28 articles, last 24 months); 17 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Contact is published by SAGE Publishing. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cellular transport and secretion, Autophagy in Disease and Therapy and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, together about 50.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
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From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-Physiology
Editor-in-chief Tim LevinePublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 9%); most named United States 8, United Kingdom 3, Mainland China 2, Germany 2, Italy 2 (23 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cellular transport and secretionBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology22.7%
- Autophagy in Disease and TherapyMedicine13.7%
- Lipid metabolism and biosynthesisBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.7%
- Lipid Membrane Structure and BehaviorBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9%
- Mitochondrial Function and PathologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7.3%
- Ion Channels and ReceptorsNeuroscience5.4%
- Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolismBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5%
- Cancer, Lipids, and MetabolismBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physiology | Q2 | 89/196 | 54th |
| Cell Biology | Q3 | 192/289 | 33rd |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.38LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.56LetPub ·
- h-index
- 20OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 47OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.28OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 161 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 14 | 14 | 188 |
| 2025 | 17 | 17 | 302 |
| 2024 | 23 | 23 | 281 |
| 2023 | 21 | 21 | 190 |
| 2022 | 19 | 19 | 141 |
| 2021 | 19 | 19 | 122 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
89 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 68 days – 157 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 28 days (28 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 124 days
- Sample
- 28 articles with submission and acceptance dates (33 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 58 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 58 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 850 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 850 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 850 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 1,600 / USD 1,280 / USD 250 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 9,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
Article types accepted14, with length limits
- addendaAddenda: Limit of 2,000 words, 25 references.Length not stated
- meeting reportsMeeting Reports: Limit of 2,000 words.Length not stated
- news and viewsNews and Views: Limit of 1,250 words, 10 references. News and Views are by invitation only.Length not stated
- opinionView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Word limits include the abstract and figure legends, but not the title page, acknowledgements, tab…main text ≤ 3,000 words
- opinionsOpinions: Limit of 3,000 words, 125 references.Length not stated
- original paperView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Word limits include the abstract and figure legends, but not the title page, acknowledgements, tab…Length not stated
- original researchView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Word limits include the abstract and figure legends, but not the title page, acknowledgements, tab…Length not stated
- original research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Word limits include the abstract and figure legends, but not the title page, acknowledgements, tab…Length not stated
- reportReport: Reports are briefer Original Research articles that may tell a shorter story than a full length article. They must include an Introduction, Results and …Length not stated
- research paperView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Word limits include the abstract and figure legends, but not the title page, acknowledgements, tab…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Word limits include the abstract and figure legends, but not the title page, acknowledgements, tab…Length not stated
- reviewsReviews: Reviews are intended for a broad audience and therefore should be written with a view to informing readers who are not specialized in that particular f…Length not stated
- short reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Word limits include the abstract and figure legends, but not the title page, acknowledgements, tab…main text ≤ 2,500 words
- short reviewsShort Reviews: Limit of 2,500 words, 65 references. These articles provide a brief review that may tell a shorter story than a full length article. The abstract…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Online-only journal, no print copies. Model summary
Contact is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the funder, instituti…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review type: Double anonymized. Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency:Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk reject…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2515-2564
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Contact
How long does peer review take at Contact?
Based on the dates recorded on 28 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 89 days (interquartile range 68–157 days); authors report an average review time of about 58 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Contact?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 9,000 words; Reference style: APA. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Contact based?
Of the 23 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 9%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (8), United Kingdom (3) and Mainland China (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Contact?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Contact is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Contact open access, and what is the APC?
Contact is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 850.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .