Cell Reports
Last updated ISSN 2211-1247
Cell Reports is published by Cell Press in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is open access. The article processing charge is $5,620.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Cell Reports concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- RNA Research and Splicing
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Key facts
| Publisher | Cell Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2211-1247, 2639-1856 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $5,620 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 17,239 |
| Publishing since | 1968 |
| Journal website | www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cell-reports |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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