BiomedicalPublications

Cell Metabolism

Cell Press·United States·ISSN 1550-4131

Subscription or hybridMedicine

Cell Metabolism is published by Cell Press as a subscription journal (ISSN 1550-4131). The list article processing charge is $10,400. Its OpenAlex h-index is 452. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$10,400

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · How we source APCs

Time to publication

—

Not reported to DOAJ.

h-index

452

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

28.7

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Cell Metabolism is listed at $10,400. The publisher also lists 9,640 EUR, 8,330 GBP, 1,289,910 JPY. No waiver policy is recorded in our sources, which does not mean none exists. Ask.

What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Cell Metabolism, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 100% since 2019, from $5,200 to $10,400.

$0$5.2k$10.4k2019: $5,20020192020: $5,20020202021: $8,90020212022: $8,90020222023: $9,08020232024: $9,35020242025: $10,4002025

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelNot reported
LicenceNot reported
Author keeps copyrightNot reported
Plagiarism screeningNot reported
Editorial boardNot linked in DOAJ
LanguagesNot reported

Verification checks

3 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsNot listed. Many legitimate subscription journals are not in DOAJ, so this alone means little.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredNo declared model found in DOAJ.
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Cell Metabolism publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Adipose Tissue and MetabolismPancreatic function and diabetesMitochondrial Function and PathologyDiet and metabolism studiesMetabolism, Diabetes, and CancerRegulation of Appetite and ObesityCancer, Hypoxia, and MetabolismAdipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic DiseasesGenetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model OrganismsLiver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Publication record

Indexed articles4,287
Total citations801,523
i10-index3,418
Most recent indexed article2026
All ISSNs1550-4131, 1932-7420

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.