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Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0142-4319Verify ISSN ↗1573-2657Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physiology | 130 / 196 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 297 / 448 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 228 / 289 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present (also 1963–1964), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility is Q3 in Physiology (rank 130 of 196), Q3 in Biochemistry (rank 297 of 448) and Q4 in Cell Biology (rank 228 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.656, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 73.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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 Muscle Research and Cell Motility is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0142-4319 and its online ISSN is 1573-2657.
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 Muscle Research and Cell Motility has an h-index of 103 and a 2-year mean of 2.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #89 of 194 Scopus journals in Physiology.
Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 60. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (16.7%), United Kingdom (16%) and United States (14.5%).
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.
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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