Journal Information

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Aims and scope

The Cell Research (CR) publishes original research results that are of unusual significance or broad conceptual or technical advances in all areas of life sciences, as long as the study is closely related to molecular and cell biology. Please go to Aims and scope page for more details.

About the Editors

Cell Research is led by the Editor-in-Chief Dangsheng Li, please go to 'about the editors' page for further information.

Editorial Board

Cell Research's international Editorial Board spans the breadth of the coverage of the journal – read more about the Editorial Board.

Why publish with us 

  • Published in partnership with the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), our journal is ranked in the top quartile of the cell biology journals worldwide.
  • We publish original research that is of unusual significance, or broad conceptual or technical advances in all areas of life sciences, as long as the study is closely related to molecular and cell biology.
  • Our expert and highly responsive editorial team provides a swift and professional service in support of our submitting authors, ensuring high levels of author satisfaction, with 100% of our published authors reporting that they would definitely or probably publish with us again.
  • Publishing on world-renowned Nature platform, we ensure high visibility and efficient promotion of the contents via various channels.

Journal Metrics

Article metrics such as number of downloads, citations and online attention are available from each article page, and provide an overview of the attention received by a paper.

Citation Impact 2023

  • Journal Impact Factor: 28.2
  • 5-year Journal Impact Factor: 36.5
  • Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 4.119
  • SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 9.506

Speed 2023

  • Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 6
  • Submission to acceptance (median days): 56

Usage 2023

  • Downloads: 2,878,092
  • Altmetric mentions: 4,930

More about our metrics

Abstracted/indexed in

Index Medicus/Medline/PubMed
Science Citation Index
Current Contents-life Sciences
SciSearch and ISI Web of Science
Chemical Abstracts
BIOSIS
VINITI
Chinainfo (CD & Web)
CJFD (CD & Web)
CSCD

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Cell Research is 1001-0602
and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1748-7838.

Newsfeeds

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Disclaimer

The editorial policies of this publication are determined jointly by its Editorial Board and Springer Nature in accordance with the legal and regulatory requirements of China.