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Cell Communication and Signaling is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1478-811XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 38 / 448 | 91st | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 43 / 414 | 89th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 37 / 289 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.3.
Cell Communication and Signaling is Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 38 of 448), Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 43 of 414) and Q1 in Cell Biology (rank 37 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Cell Communication and Signaling 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 13.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.898, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 113.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Cell Communication and Signaling is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1478-811X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cell Communication and Signaling has an h-index of 134 and a 2-year mean of 10.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Cell Communication and Signaling published 609 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 619. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (52.9%), Italy (8.3%) and India (4.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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