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Cell Stem Cell is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 36.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cell Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1875-9777Verify ISSN ↗1934-5909Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cell Press
Cost to publish: About US$10,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics | 4 / 357 | 99th | Q1 |
| Molecular Medicine | 3 / 179 | 98th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 5 / 289 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 36.1.
Cell Stem Cell is Q1 in Genetics (rank 4 of 357), Q1 in Molecular Medicine (rank 3 of 179) and Q1 in Cell Biology (rank 5 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Cell Stem Cell 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 36.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 12.003, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 329.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$10,400 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 Stem Cell is published by Cell Press. Its print ISSN is 1875-9777 and its online ISSN is 1934-5909.
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.
Cell Stem Cell has an h-index of 377 and a 2-year mean of 19.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 36.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 353 Scopus journals in Genetics.
Cell Stem Cell published 161 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 244. 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 United States (32.8%), China (29.2%) and Germany (5.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (2.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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