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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · ISSN 2073-4409

Cells 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: 6.88 citations per paper for Cells, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

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Key metrics

Two-year mean citedness
6.88Citations per paper, papers from the two prior yearsSource: OpenAlex
h-index
233Across all yearsSource: OpenAlex
Papers in 2025
2,06521,678 in totalSource: OpenAlex
Access
OpenAPC about $3,258Source: OpenAlex
Output

Papers per year.

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

1,0002,0003,0004,0005,00020192020202120222023202420252,065

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

Scope

What Cells publishes.

Mostly Genetics, Epidemiology and Neurology, within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

  • Mesenchymal stem cell research
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research

Most frequent research topics in OpenAlex.

Alternatives

Journals with a similar citation profile.

JournalTwo-year mean citednessh-indexAccess
Cells6.88233Open
Oncogene6.84423Subscription
JCB6.72597Subscription
IJMS7.08426Open
Communications Biology6.66141Open
Questions

About Cells.

Comment 1What is the Cells 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: 6.88 citations per paper for Cells, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Comment 2Is Cells open access?
Response

Yes, Cells is fully open access, with an article processing charge of about $3,258.

Comment 3How many papers does Cells publish a year?
Response

OpenAlex records 2,065 works in 2025, and 21,678 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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