IEEE Transactions on Molecular Biological and Multi-Scale Communications

IEEE Transactions on Molecular Biological and Multi-Scale Communications is published by IEEE and is in Zone 3 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks, Wireless Body Area Networks and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, together about 51.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

As a result of recent advances in MEMS/NEMS and systems biology, as well as the emergence of synthetic bacteria and lab/process-on-a-chip techniques, it is now possible to design chemical “circuits”, custom organisms, micro/nanoscale swarms of devices, and a host of other new systems. This success opens up a new frontier for interdisciplinary communications techniques using chemistry, biology, and other principles that have not been considered in the communications literature. The IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications (T-MBMSC) is devoted to the principles, design, and analysis of communication systems that use physics beyond classical electromagnetism. This includes molecular, quantum, and other physical, chemical and biological techniques; as well as new communication techniques at small scales or across multiple scales (e.g., nano to micro to macro; note that strictly nanoscale systems, 1-100 nm, are outside the scope of this journal). Original research articles on one or more of the following topics are within scope: mathematical modeling, information/communication and network theoretic analysis, standardization and industrial applications, and analytical or experimental studies on communication processes or networks in biology. Contributions on related topics may also be considered for publication. Contributions from researchers outside the IEEE’s typical audience are encouraged.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Sasitharan BalasubramaniamPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

2.5Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

4.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

4.2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.68LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.89LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

33OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

144OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.88OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

20%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

15.19%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

54LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

IEEE

ISSN

2332-7804

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex