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Elsevier BV · ISSN 1097-2765 · 1097-4164

Molecular 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: 14.33 citations per paper for Molecular Cell, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

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Key metrics

Two-year mean citedness
14.33Citations per paper, papers from the two prior yearsSource: OpenAlex
h-index
527Across all yearsSource: OpenAlex
Papers in 2025
34710,665 in totalSource: OpenAlex
Access
SubscriptionAPC about $10,400Source: OpenAlex
Output

Papers per year.

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

3003504004505002019202020212022202320242025347

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

Scope

What Molecular Cell publishes.

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

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Most frequent research topics in OpenAlex.

Alternatives

Journals with a similar citation profile.

JournalTwo-year mean citednessh-indexAccess
Molecular Cell14.33527Subscription
Redox Biology14.60209Open
Nature Biotechnology13.69630Subscription
Microbiome15.31231Open
Cell Host & Microbe15.93312Subscription
Questions

About Molecular Cell.

Comment 1What is the Molecular 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: 14.33 citations per paper for Molecular Cell, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Comment 2Is Molecular Cell open access?
Response

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

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

OpenAlex records 347 works in 2025, and 10,665 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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