Molecular Biology of the Cell: impact and ranking
Molecular Biology of the Cell has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.71 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,986 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 296. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.71 #2,986 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 296 #540 of 18,122
- Citations
- 856k #452 of 18,122
- Works
- 12k 73.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Molecular Biology of the 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 Molecular Biology of the Cell: 3.71, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Molecular Biology of the Cell #2,986 of 18,122 journals, in the top 16%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Molecular Biology of the Cell?
OpenAlex gives Molecular Biology of the Cell an h-index of 296: 296 of its papers have each been cited at least 296 times. That ranks #540 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Molecular Biology of the Cell publish?
OpenAlex records 11,572 works in Molecular Biology of the Cell from 1956 to 2026, cited 855,637 times in all, 73.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #452 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Molecular Biology of the Cell
- Publisher
- American Society for Cell Biology
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1059-1524
- In OpenAlex
- 1956 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Molecular Biology of the Cell as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.molbiolcell.org
- OpenAlex record
- S188085164
Journals ranked near Molecular Biology of the Cell
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Molecular Biology of the Cell on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,916 | Frontiers in Psychology | 3.76 | 310 |
| 2,948 | Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids | 3.73 | 241 |
| 2,979 | Development | 3.71 | 468 |
| 3,001 | American Psychologist | 3.69 | 482 |
| 3,027 | Forest Ecology and Management | 3.66 | 268 |
| 3,031 | Dalton Transactions | 3.66 | 228 |
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.