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Cell Surface is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2468-2330Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 21 / 134 | 84th | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 32 / 194 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 75 / 414 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 63 / 289 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.4.
Cell Surface is Q1 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 21 of 134), Q1 in Microbiology (rank 32 of 194) and Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 75 of 414), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cell Surface 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 9.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.607, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,530 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 Surface is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2468-2330.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cell Surface has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 6.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 130 Scopus journals in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Cell Surface published 27 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (23.7%), United States (13.1%) and China (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (5.8 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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