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Cell Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Royan Institute (ACECR).
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ISSN 2228-5806Verify ISSN ↗2228-5814Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royan Institute (ACECR)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 165 / 466 | 64th | Q2 |
| Reproductive Medicine | 39 / 99 | 61st | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 59 / 144 | 59th | Q2 |
| Neuroscience (miscellaneous) | 38 / 74 | 49th | Q3 |
| Developmental Biology | 49 / 78 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Cell Journal is Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 165 of 466), Q2 in Reproductive Medicine (rank 39 of 99) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 59 of 144), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Cell Journal 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.485, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 46.
Cell Journal is published by Royan Institute (ACECR). Its print ISSN is 2228-5806 and its online ISSN is 2228-5814.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cell Journal has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #413 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
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.
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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