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Aims and Scope

Cell Communication and Signaling (CCS) is an open access journal that encompasses all basic and translational aspects of cellular communications and signaling pathways in normal and pathological conditions. The journal encourages submissions of original papers, review papers, short reports, and commentaries pertaining to both eukaryotic and prokaryotic intracellular and intercellular signal transduction, including but not limited to:

  • Signal transduction by protein-protein interactions and modular domains
  • Post-translational modification of proteins and epigenetic modification of nucleic acids
  • Mechanisms of cell transformation, metastasis, senescence, and aging
  • Homeostatic and pathophysiological mechanisms of disease progression
  • Mechanisms of viral and bacterial pathogenesis and virulence factors

In addition, reflecting journal’s affiliation with the International Cell Death Society, CCS welcomes submissions in all aspects of cell
death, which includes:  

  • Apoptotic and non-apoptotic mechanisms of cell death
  • Cell death in model systems
  • Autophagy
  • Clearance of dying cells
  • Immunological and pathological consequences of dying cells in the tissue microenvironment

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Articles

  1. Authors: Gabriela Basile Carballo, Jéssica Ribeiro Honorato, Giselle Pinto Farias de Lopes and Tania Cristina Leite de Sampaio e Spohr

2024
Cell State and Fate in Health and Disease
Edited by Dr. Shazib Pervaiz, Dr. Reshma Taneja, Dr. Shuo-Chien Ling

Mechanisms and Etiology of Male Health Disorders: Hormones, Cancer, and Fertility
Edited by Dr. Marco Cordani, Dr. Ilaria Dando, Dr. Giulia Ambrosini, Dr. Pedro González-Menéndez Dando

Biology Beyond Boundaries: Mitochondrial and Cell Death in Translational Research
Edited by Dr. Rajesh Gacche, Dr. Raymond Birge, Dr. Rana P. Singh and Dr. Dhyan Chandra

2023
Signaling, Cancer Cell Plasticity, and Intratumor Heterogeneity
Edited by Dr. Marco Cordani, Dr. Ilaria Dando, Dr. Giulia Ambrosini, Dr. Pedro González-Menéndez Dando

Extracellular vesicles in Intercellular Communication
Edited by Dr. Nicole-Meisner Kober and Dr. Silja Wessler

Tumor Cell Intrinsic Mechanisms of Immune Escape
Edited by Dr. Ganapathy Sriram and Dr. Raymond Birge

2021
Kinases, adaptor proteins, and actin cytoskeleton rearrangements in EMT and cancer
Edited by Leszek Kotula and Patrycja Dubielecka-Szczerba

The roles of intrinsically disordered proteins and regions (IDPs and IDRs) in cell communication and cell signaling
Edited by Sarah Bondos, AK Dunker, and Vladmir Uversky

2020
Biology of phosphatidylserine: basic physiology and implications in immunology, infectious disease, and cancer
Edited by Raymond Birge and David Calianese

2019
25th Anniversary of the ICDS Cell Death collection
Edited by Raymond Birge

2018
Pluripotent Stem Cells: Research Review

2017
Tumor Cell-Microenvironment Communication
Edited by Silja Wessler

2016
Short linear motifs - the unexplored frontier of the eukaryotic proteome
Edited by Norman Davey

2014
Bacterial pathogen - host cell interactions
Edited by Silja Wessler

2013
Systems Biology and Medicine
Edited by Stephan Feller and Fred Schaper

2011
Interaction of Helicobacter pylori with its host cell
Edited by Silja Wessler

2010
Cancer cell motility and microenvironment


Check out our New Collections!

Cell State and Fate in Health and Disease
Edited by Dr. Shazib Pervaiz, Dr. Reshma Taneja, Dr. Shuo-Chien Ling

Mechanisms and Etiology of Male Health Disorders: Hormones, Cancer, and Fertility
Edited by Dr. Marco Cordani, Dr. Ilaria Dando, Dr. Giulia Ambrosini, Dr. Pedro González-Menéndez Dando

Biology Beyond Boundaries: Mitochondrial and Cell Death in Translational Research
Edited by Dr. Rajesh Gacche, Dr. Raymond Birge, Dr. Rana P. Singh and Dr. Dhyan Chandra

Submit your manuscript here.

News & Updates

13th Models of Physiology and Disease Symposium
26-27 September, 2024, MD11- Clinical Research Centre Auditorium, National University of Singapore. 

8th International Symposium on Mitochondria and Cell Death: Frontiers in Cancer Research
17-18 Feb, 2025 at Convention Center, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

19th International Symposium on Integrative Oncology and Systems Medicine: Emerging Trends and Therapeutic Potential
20-21 Feb, 2025 at Sridev Suman Uttarakhand University & AIIMS Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

ICDS 2025 Annual Meeting
The International Cell Death Society will be holding their 31st international conference "Cell Fate and its Regulation in Health and Disease" at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore on May 28-30, 2025. Organized by: Marie-Veronique Clément, Richard A. Lockshin, Shazib Pervaiz, and Zahra Zakeri
Please click here for more information about the meeting. 

Video Bytes are here

At Cell Communication and Signaling, we are passionate about the dissemination of research.

We are pleased to announce that as of the 12th August 2019, all authors whose papers are accepted will receive a complimentary Video Byte.

Created by our partners, Research Square, the fastest growing preprint platform in the world, a Video Byte is a 1-2 minute video summary of a paper that will be incorporated into the abstract of the paper and published on the journal website. Authors will also receive a shareable version of their Video Byte.

Integration into the article page makes your research more accessible to a wide variety of audiences and disciplines. Telling the story of your work in easy-to-understand terms means greater understanding and impact of your research.

Additionally, Video Bytes are also posted on the Research Square preprint platform and OER commons; the team at Research Square is pursuing additional ways to share and disseminate your work. Articles on Microbiome with an associated video saw an increase of 168% in article views, 143% increase in citations, and 161% increase in Altmetric scores compared to articles without videos.

If you’d like to learn more, check out Video Bytes here.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 8.2
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 8.0
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.569
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 2.308

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 5
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 83

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 1,766,710
    Altmetric mentions: 2,366