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Cell Stress is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Shared Science Publishers OG.
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ISSN 2523-0204Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Shared Science Publishers OG
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 45 / 144 | 69th | Q2 |
| Physiology | 85 / 196 | 56th | Q2 |
| Cancer Research | 136 / 233 | 41st | Q3 |
| Molecular Medicine | 110 / 179 | 38th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Cell Stress is Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 45 of 144), Q2 in Physiology (rank 85 of 196) and Q3 in Cancer Research (rank 136 of 233), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cell Stress is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.198, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,283 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 Stress is published by Shared Science Publishers OG. Its ISSN is 2523-0204.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cell Stress has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 3.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 141 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous).
Cell Stress published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 64. 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 76 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (23%), France (13.2%) and China (12%).
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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