Molecular Cell: impact and ranking
Molecular Cell has a 2-year mean citedness of 14.3 in OpenAlex, which ranks #172 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 527. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 14.3 #172 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 527 #68 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.7M #163 of 18,122
- Works
- 11k 160.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Molecular 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 Cell: 14.3, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Molecular Cell #172 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.9%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Molecular Cell?
OpenAlex gives Molecular Cell an h-index of 527: 527 of its papers have each been cited at least 527 times. That ranks #68 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Molecular Cell publish?
OpenAlex records 10,642 works in Molecular Cell from 1902 to 2026, cited 1,707,205 times in all, 160.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #163 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Molecular Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1097-2765
- In OpenAlex
- 1902 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Molecular Cell as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$10,400.
- OpenAlex record
- S156208185
Journals ranked near Molecular Cell
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Molecular Cell on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 156 | ACS Catalysis | 14.8 | 378 |
| 168 | Nature Immunology | 14.4 | 526 |
| 171 | Neuron | 14.3 | 689 |
| 176 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 14.1 | 361 |
| 181 | Diabetes Care | 13.9 | 508 |
| 183 | Journal of Financial Economics | 13.8 | 573 |
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.