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Journal of Cellular Physiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Liss Inc..
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ISSN 0021-9541Verify ISSN ↗1097-4652Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Liss Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$5,230 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physiology | 18 / 196 | 91st | Q1 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 19 / 124 | 85th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 62 / 289 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present (also 1945–1958), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.4.
Journal of Cellular Physiology is Q1 in Physiology (rank 18 of 196), Q1 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 19 of 124) and Q1 in Cell Biology (rank 62 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cellular Physiology 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 9.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.250, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 221.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,230 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.
Journal of Cellular Physiology is published by Wiley-Liss Inc. Its print ISSN is 0021-9541 and its online ISSN is 1097-4652.
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.
Journal of Cellular Physiology has an h-index of 271 and a 2-year mean of 3.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 194 Scopus journals in Physiology.
Journal of Cellular Physiology published 161 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 1,447. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (32%), United States (11%) and South Korea (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 358 retracted papers are recorded (18 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 10 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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