Last Updated on July 16, 2026 by Dr. Bhagat
Here in this post, apart from Molecular Cell Impact Factor, I have tried to compile all the necessary information a research scholar would seek before publishing an article in the journal.
About Molecular Cell Journal
Molecular Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research on cell biology at the molecular level, with an emphasis on new mechanistic insights. It was established in 1997 and is published two times per month.
Impact Factor
SJR Rank
H-index
Molecular Cell Impact Factor
Impact Factor (IF) or often called journal impact factor (JIF) is an index provided by an analytics company named Clarivate. The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of times the articles are cited in the last two years by the total number of publications in those two years.
- Total Citations in 2020 and 2021 = 500
- Total Number of Publications in 2020 and 2021 = 100
- Impact Factor of the Journal in 2022 = 500/100 = 5
Molecular Cell Nature Impact Factor (2019-2025)
- Molecular Cell Impact Factor 2018 – 14.248
- Molecular Cell Impact Factor 2019 – 14.548
- Molecular Cell Impact Factor 2020 – 15.584
- Molecular Cell Impact Factor 2021 – 17.970
- Molecular Cell Impact Factor 2022 – coming soon
Molecular Cell H-index
The h index is a metric for evaluating the cumulative impact of an author’s scholarly output and performance; measures quantity with quality by comparing publications to citations.
The h index of Molecular Cell Journal is 414, which means among all the published articles in this journal, 414 of these publications have received at least 414 citations each.
Molecular Cell Journal Metrics
Molecular Cell CiteScore
Molecular Cell SCImago Rank
Year
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
2018
12.076
2019
11.075
2020
12.615
2021
9.959
Molecular Cell Editorial Board Members
Below are the latest editorial board members of Molecular Cell
- Dr Carlo Cannistraci
- Dr Joana Maria Ramis
- Professor Xiaochun Li
- Professor Luciano Bosso
- Dr Ryoung Shin
- Dr. Alberto G. Fairén
- Professor Xuyang Lu
- Professor Matjaž Perc
- Professor Yu Xin Zhang
- Professor Z. Altounian
- Dr Lena Ciric
- Professor Kah-Wee Ang
- Dr Pedro Oliveira
- Dr. Ciria C. Hernandez
- Professor Claudia RC Moreno
- Professor Jimin Zhao
- Professor Amy Peterson
- Dr. Jagadeesh Bayry
- Professor Timothy Geary
- Dr. Leyla Soleymani
- Dr. Ruth Blasco
- Dr. Feng Gao
- Professor Kenji Kansaku
Molecular Cell Publication Fee
Molecular Cell is an open-access journal. The publication fee for Science is £1690/$2190/€1890 in GBP/USD/EURO respectively (excluding taxes).
Molecular Cell offer APC waivers and discounts for papers published in our fully open access journals whose corresponding authors are based in the world’s lowest-income countries (APC waivers and discounts policy for further information). Requests from other authors for APC waivers and discounts are considered on a case-by-case basis and may be granted in cases of financial need.
Molecular Cell Review Time
Molecular Cell prioritizes rapid publication and uses single-blind peer review, which is standard across Cell Press journals.
| Initial decision to review | 45 days after submission |
Molecular Cell Reference Style
Molecular Cell, uses the standard Nature referencing style.
Printed journals
Schott, D. H., Collins, R. N. & Bretscher, A. Secretory vesicle transport velocity in living cells depends on the myosin V lever arm length. J. Cell Biol. 156, 35-39 (2002).
Online only
Bellin, D. L. et al. Electrochemical camera chip for simultaneous imaging of multiple metabolites in biofilms. Nat. Commun. 7, 10535; 10.1038/ncomms10535 (2016).
For papers with more than five authors include only the first author’s name followed by ‘et al.’.
Books:
Smith, J. Syntax of referencing in How to reference books (ed. Smith, S.) 180-181 (Macmillan, 2013).
Online material:
Babichev, S. A., Ries, J. & Lvovsky, A. I. Quantum scissors: teleportation of single-mode optical states by means of a nonlocal single photon. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0208066 (2002).
Manaster, J. Sloth squeak. Scientific American Blog Network http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2014/04/09/sloth-squeak (2014).
Hao, Z., AghaKouchak, A., Nakhjiri, N. & Farahmand, A. Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system (GIDMaPS) data sets. figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.853801 (2014).
Molecular Cell Endnote Style
You can download the Molecular Cell Endnote Style and Molecular Cell Zotero Style
Molecular Cell Abbreviation
The ISO 4 standard abbreviation for abstracting, indexing and referencing purposes of Molecular Cell is “Sci. Rep.“
Molecular Cell Acceptance Rate
The acceptance rate of a journal is the ratio of the number of articles submitted to the number of articles published.
The average acceptance rate of Molecular Cell journal is 48%
Molecular Cell Indexed in
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