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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 165.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Nature Research.
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ISSN 1471-0072Verify ISSN ↗1471-0080Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Research
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molecular Biology | 1 / 414 | 99th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 1 / 289 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 165.2.
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology is Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 1 of 414) and Q1 in Cell Biology (rank 1 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 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 165.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 35.568, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 553.
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology is published by Nature Research. Its print ISSN is 1471-0072 and its online ISSN is 1471-0080.
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.
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology has an h-index of 630 and a 2-year mean of 43.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 165.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 411 Scopus journals in Molecular Biology.
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology published 120 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 142. 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 87 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (37.7%), China (14.2%) and Germany (9%).
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.
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