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DNA and Cell Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.1), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1044-5498Verify ISSN ↗1557-7430Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics | 156 / 357 | 56th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 223 / 414 | 46th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 174 / 289 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.1.
DNA and Cell Biology is Q2 in Genetics (rank 156 of 357), Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 223 of 414) and Q3 in Cell Biology (rank 174 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
DNA and Cell Biology 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.664, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 94.
DNA and Cell Biology is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1044-5498 and its online ISSN is 1557-7430.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
DNA and Cell Biology has an h-index of 115 and a 2-year mean of 2.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #161 of 353 Scopus journals in Genetics.
DNA and Cell Biology published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 224. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (50%), Iran (9.8%) and United States (9.8%). 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. 41 retracted papers are recorded (10.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 11 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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