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Molecular Biology of the Cell is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE. Published by American Society for Cell Biology.
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ISSN 1059-1524Verify ISSN ↗1939-4586Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society for Cell Biology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molecular Biology | 257 / 414 | 38th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 201 / 289 | 30th | 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 Q3, CiteScore 4.4.
Molecular Biology of the Cell is Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 257 of 414) and Q3 in Cell Biology (rank 201 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular Biology of the Cell 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.441, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 256.
Molecular Biology of the Cell is published by American Society for Cell Biology. Its print ISSN is 1059-1524 and its online ISSN is 1939-4586.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Molecular Biology of the Cell has an h-index of 299 and a 2-year mean of 3.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #147 of 411 Scopus journals in Molecular Biology.
Molecular Biology of the Cell published 226 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 401. 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 United States (69.9%), Canada (6.7%) and Germany (3.9%). 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. 12 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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