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Cell Press · ISSN 2211-1247 · 2639-1856

Cell Reports impact factor, and the open numbers behind it.

Short answer

The Journal Impact Factor is a licensed Clarivate metric, so we do not reproduce it. The closest open equivalent is OpenAlex's two-year mean citedness: 8.80 citations per paper for Cell Reports, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

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Key metrics

Two-year mean citedness
8.80Citations per paper, papers from the two prior yearsSource: OpenAlex
h-index
320Across all yearsSource: OpenAlex
Papers in 2025
1,57917,426 in totalSource: OpenAlex
Access
OpenAPC about $5,620Source: OpenAlex
Output

Papers per year.

How many works Cell Reports published in each complete year, as indexed by OpenAlex.

1,2001,4001,6001,80020192020202120222023202420251,579

Fig. 1 — Works per year from OpenAlex. Retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Scope

What Cell Reports publishes.

Mostly Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Immunology, within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Most frequent research topics in OpenAlex.

Alternatives

Journals with a similar citation profile.

JournalTwo-year mean citednessh-indexAccess
Cell Reports8.80320Open
EMBO J8.59563Open
Phil Trans B9.15419Subscription
Cell Chemical Biology8.30119Subscription
Genome Research8.27399Subscription
Questions

About Cell Reports.

Comment 1What is the Cell Reports impact factor?
Response

The Journal Impact Factor is a licensed Clarivate metric, so we do not reproduce it. The closest open equivalent is OpenAlex's two-year mean citedness: 8.80 citations per paper for Cell Reports, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Comment 2Is Cell Reports open access?
Response

Yes, Cell Reports is fully open access, with an article processing charge of about $5,620.

Comment 3How many papers does Cell Reports publish a year?
Response

OpenAlex records 1,579 works in 2025, and 17,426 in total.

Sources

  1. 1. OpenAlex source record · retrieved 23 Oct 2026

The Journal Impact Factor is a Clarivate metric and is not reproduced here.

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