Molecular Cell
Cost to publish
$10,400
Open-access article processing charge, list price.
Time to publication
—
Not reported to DOAJ.
h-index
534
OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.
2-year mean citedness
13.4
Average citations to articles from the previous two years.
What it costs to publish here
Publishing an open-access article in Molecular Cell 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 Molecular Cell, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 100% since 2019, from $5,200 to $10,400.
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 model | Not reported |
|---|---|
| Licence | Not reported |
| Author keeps copyright | Not reported |
| Plagiarism screening | Not reported |
| Editorial board | Not linked in DOAJ |
| Languages | Not 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.Not confirmed
- Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.Confirmed
- Peer review model publicly declaredNo declared model found in DOAJ.Not confirmed
- Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.Confirmed
- Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.Not confirmed
- Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.Not confirmed
- Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.Not confirmed
- Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.Confirmed
Scope
The subjects Molecular Cell publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.
Publication record
| Indexed articles | 10,626 |
|---|---|
| Total citations | 1,742,175 |
| i10-index | 8,729 |
| Most recent indexed article | 2026 |
| All ISSNs | 1097-2765, 1097-4164 |
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.