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Elsevier BV · ISSN 1875-9777 · 1934-5909

Cell Stem Cell 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: 19.73 citations per paper for Cell Stem Cell, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

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Key metrics

Two-year mean citedness
19.73Citations per paper, papers from the two prior yearsSource: OpenAlex
h-index
372Across all yearsSource: OpenAlex
Papers in 2025
1613,873 in totalSource: OpenAlex
Access
SubscriptionAPC about $10,400Source: OpenAlex
Output

Papers per year.

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

1001502002502019202020212022202320242025161

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

Scope

What Cell Stem Cell publishes.

Mostly Molecular Biology, Hematology and Genetics, within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Mesenchymal stem cell research
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Most frequent research topics in OpenAlex.

Alternatives

Journals with a similar citation profile.

JournalTwo-year mean citednessh-indexAccess
Cell Stem Cell19.73372Subscription
Nature Genetics19.35776Subscription
Nature Metabolism18.48147Subscription
Nature Microbiology17.56223Subscription
NAR17.49869Open
Questions

About Cell Stem Cell.

Comment 1What is the Cell Stem Cell 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: 19.73 citations per paper for Cell Stem Cell, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Comment 2Is Cell Stem Cell open access?
Response

Cell Stem Cell is not a fully open-access journal; check its author guidelines for open-access options and charges.

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

OpenAlex records 161 works in 2025, and 3,873 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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