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Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 18.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Annual Reviews Inc..
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ISSN 1081-0706Verify ISSN ↗1530-8995Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Annual Reviews Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental Biology | 1 / 78 | 99th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 23 / 289 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 18.3.
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology is Q1 in Developmental Biology (rank 1 of 78) and Q1 in Cell Biology (rank 23 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 18.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 7.701, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 255.
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology is published by Annual Reviews Inc. Its print ISSN is 1081-0706 and its online ISSN is 1530-8995.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology has an h-index of 290 and a 2-year mean of 11.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 18.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 76 Scopus journals in Developmental Biology.
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 32. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (49.3%), Switzerland (10.7%) and Germany (10.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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