Cell's 2026 Journal Metrics Score is 39.2, ranking Q1 in Molecular Biology. Two-year citation average from OpenAlex data, updated August 2026.
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Journal Metrics Score 2026 · 2021–2024 window citedness 41.56.
Middle 50%: 208–426 days
99 of 100 PubMed-indexed articles · 99% coverage · 2024–2025
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1518 of 1,982 works · same type, year & subfield
882 works · same type, year & subfield
Above field-year expectation
of 1,465 topic-associated OpenAlex sources by lifetime output
FWCI compares papers with the same publication year, type, and field. 1.0 is the world average; above 1.0 is above expectation. This journal's median is 8.64, so its typical recent paper runs about 764% above its field benchmark.
76.6% of recent papers rank in the global top 10% after field normalization. This is easier to compare across specialties than raw citation totals.
Volume is separated from citation accumulation so newer papers are not presented as weaker simply because they are newer.
OpenAlex source records · 2016–2025
1,982 OpenAlex works · 2021–2024
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| Category | Quartile |
|---|---|
| Molecular Biology | Q1 |
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2026 Journal Metrics Scores for all 4 Cell journals published by Cell Press, highest score first. Each journal is scored separately; there is no combined score for the Cell family.
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Cell's 2026 Journal Metrics Score is 39.2, from the August 2026 data release. The score is a two-year citation average computed from OpenAlex (CC0) data: citations received in the most recent complete year to works published in the two prior years, divided by the number of those works.
Cell's best quartile is Q1. By OpenAlex subfield: Q1 in Molecular Biology. Quartiles rank journals by Journal Metrics Score within each subfield.
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Across 99 recent PubMed records with both dates, Cell took a median of 296 days from submission to acceptance; the middle half took 208–426 days. This interval includes editorial handling and revisions, so it is not the time to a first decision.
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