Cell: impact and ranking
Cell has a 2-year mean citedness of 41.4 in OpenAlex, which ranks #9 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 1,217. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 41.4 #9 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 1,217 #4 of 18,122
- Citations
- 8.9M #10 of 18,122
- Works
- 27k 329.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Cell?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Cell: 41.4, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Cell #9 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Cell?
OpenAlex gives Cell an h-index of 1,217: 1,217 of its papers have each been cited at least 1,217 times. That ranks #4 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Cell publish?
OpenAlex records 26,946 works in Cell from 1814 to 2026, cited 8,870,851 times in all, 329.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #10 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Cell
- Publisher
- Cell Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0092-8674
- In OpenAlex
- 1814 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Cell as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$11,400.
- OpenAlex record
- S110447773
Journals ranked near Cell
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Cell on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Chemical Reviews | 57.7 | 1,015 |
| 5 | Chemical Society Reviews | 45.5 | 761 |
| 6 | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 44.2 | 621 |
| 13 | Reviews of Modern Physics | 35.2 | 618 |
| 15 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 35.0 | 486 |
| 16 | Cancer Cell | 34.8 | 484 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.