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Molecular Cell is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 27), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cell Press.
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ISSN 1097-2765Verify ISSN ↗1097-4164Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cell Press
Cost to publish: About US$10,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molecular Biology | 11 / 414 | 97th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 12 / 289 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 27.
Molecular Cell is Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 11 of 414) and Q1 in Cell Biology (rank 12 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular 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 27, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 10.670, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 473.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$10,400 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 Cell is published by Cell Press. Its print ISSN is 1097-2765 and its online ISSN is 1097-4164.
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.
Molecular Cell has an h-index of 536 and a 2-year mean of 13.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 27, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 411 Scopus journals in Molecular Biology.
Molecular Cell published 367 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 445. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (39.2%), China (13.4%) and United Kingdom (10.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 44 retracted papers are recorded (4.1 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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