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Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1420-682XVerify ISSN ↗1420-9071Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology | 27 / 328 | 91st | Q1 |
| Molecular Medicine | 20 / 179 | 89th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 48 / 414 | 88th | Q1 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 13 / 102 | 87th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 44 / 289 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1952 (also 1997–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences is Q1 in Pharmacology (rank 27 of 328), Q1 in Molecular Medicine (rank 20 of 179) and Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 48 of 414), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 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 12, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.230, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 281.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,290 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.
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1420-682X and its online ISSN is 1420-9071.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences has an h-index of 331 and a 2-year mean of 7.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 319 Scopus journals in Pharmacology.
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences published 464 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 584. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (55.1%), Italy (6.1%) and United States (4.6%). 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. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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