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Molecular and Cellular Probes is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press.
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ISSN 0890-8508Verify ISSN ↗1096-1194Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molecular Biology | 229 / 414 | 44th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 177 / 289 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 5.
Molecular and Cellular Probes is Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 229 of 414) and Q3 in Cell Biology (rank 177 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular and Cellular Probes 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.740, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 81.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,790 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.
Molecular and Cellular Probes is published by Academic Press. Its print ISSN is 0890-8508 and its online ISSN is 1096-1194.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Molecular and Cellular Probes has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 3.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #171 of 411 Scopus journals in Molecular Biology.
Molecular and Cellular Probes published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 138. 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 (69.1%), Iran (11.9%) and Germany (3.2%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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.
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