Cell Reports: impact and ranking
Cell Reports has a 2-year mean citedness of 8.69 in OpenAlex, which ranks #529 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 319. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 8.69 #529 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 319 #429 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1M #371 of 18,122
- Works
- 17k 59.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Cell Reports?
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 Reports: 8.69, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Cell Reports #529 of 18,122 journals, in the top 3%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Cell Reports?
OpenAlex gives Cell Reports an h-index of 319: 319 of its papers have each been cited at least 319 times. That ranks #429 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Cell Reports publish?
OpenAlex records 17,365 works in Cell Reports from 1968 to 2026, cited 1,024,091 times in all, 59.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #371 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Cell Reports
- Publisher
- Cell Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 2211-1247
- In OpenAlex
- 1968 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Cell Reports as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$5,620.
- OpenAlex record
- S169236886
Journals ranked near Cell Reports
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Cell Reports on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 512 | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 8.79 | 375 |
| 522 | Brain | 8.75 | 503 |
| 528 | Journal of Materials Chemistry A | 8.69 | 361 |
| 534 | Sensors and Actuators B Chemical | 8.65 | 278 |
| 553 | The EMBO Journal | 8.48 | 563 |
| 559 | Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 8.42 | 510 |
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.