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Molecular Metabolism is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
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ISSN 2212-8778Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molecular Biology | 51 / 414 | 87th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 46 / 289 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.9.
Molecular Metabolism is Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 51 of 414) and Q1 in Cell Biology (rank 46 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular Metabolism 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 11.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.918, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 123.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,270 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 Metabolism is published by Elsevier GmbH. Its ISSN is 2212-8778.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Molecular Metabolism has an h-index of 141 and a 2-year mean of 6.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 411 Scopus journals in Molecular Biology.
Molecular Metabolism published 209 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 235. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (32.6%), Germany (10.9%) and France (5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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