BiomedicalPublications

Cells

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute·Switzerland·ISSN 2073-4409

Open accessIn DOAJBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Cost to publish

$3,258

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Time to publication

6 wks

Fast for a peer-reviewed journal — check what review depth that implies.

h-index

232

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

6.3

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Cells is listed at $3,258. The publisher also lists 2,700 CHF. No waiver policy is recorded in our sources, which does not mean none exists. Ask.

The journal's own fee page →

What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Cells, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 79% since 2019, from $1,824 to $3,258.

$0$1.6k$3.3k2019: $1,82420192020: $2,11220202021: $2,16020212022: $2,30320222023: $2,66920232024: $3,06920242025: $3,2582025

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 modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY
Author keeps copyrightYes
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

7 of 8 confirmed

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  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer review
  • 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 Cells publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

MicroRNA in disease regulationAutophagy in Disease and TherapyExtracellular vesicles in diseaseNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsMitochondrial Function and PathologyMesenchymal stem cell researchEpigenetics and DNA MethylationImmune Cell Function and InteractionRNA Research and SplicingImmune cells in cancer

Publication record

Indexed articles21,258
Total citations601,222
i10-index13,085
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2012
All ISSNs2073-4409

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.