Traffic

Aims & Scope

Traffic encourages and facilitates the publication of papers in any field relating to intracellular transport in health and disease.

Traffic papers span disciplines such as developmental biology, neuroscience, innate and adaptive immunity, epithelial cell biology, intracellular pathogens and host-pathogen interactions, among others using any eukaryotic model system.

Areas of particular interest include protein, nucleic acid and lipid traffic, molecular motors, intracellular pathogens, intracellular proteolysis, nuclear import and export, cytokinesis and the cell cycle, the interface between signaling and trafficking or localization, protein translocation, the cell biology of adaptive an innate immunity, organelle biogenesis, metabolism, cell polarity and organization, and organelle movement.

All aspects of the structural, molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, morphology, intracellular signaling and relationship to hereditary or infectious diseases will be covered.

Manuscripts must provide a clear conceptual or mechanistic advance.

The editors will reject papers that require major changes, including addition of significant experimental data or other significant revision.

Traffic will consider manuscripts of any length, but encourages authors to limit their papers to 16 typeset pages or less.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.5
2024	3.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.278

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	152

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	3183

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	350

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline
• Embase

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Exosome Secretion: Molecular Mechanisms and Roles in Immune Responses

  Citation: 891

  Authors: Angélique, Marina, Graça, Clotilde

• Cellular Internalization of Exosomes Occurs Through Phagocytosis

  Citation: 817

  Authors: Du, Wen-Long, Yun-Ying, Xiao-Chen, Rui-Qin, Lei-Fu, Qiang, Sen-Fang

• Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy in Cell Biology

  Citation: 774

  Authors: Daniel

• The Biogenesis and Functions of Exosomes

  Citation: 693

  Authors: Willem, Monique J., Hans J., Graça

• A Comprehensive Model for the Cellular Uptake of Cationic Cell‐penetrating Peptides

  Citation: 665

  Authors: Falk, Mariola, Heinz, Rainer, Roland

• Phospholipid Synthesis and Transport in Mammalian Cells

  Citation: 657

  Authors: Jean E.

• Exosome Function: From Tumor Immunology to Pathogen Biology

  Citation: 628

  Authors: Jeffrey S., Sanchita

• Lysosomal membrane permeabilization and cell death

  Citation: 621

  Authors: Fengjuan, Raquel, Patricia

• Endocytosis Via Caveolae

  Citation: 609

  Authors: Lucas, Ari

• Multivesicular Endosome Biogenesis in the Absence of ESCRTs

  Citation: 601

  Authors: Susanne, Catherine, Harald, Andreas

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