Molecules and Cells
Last updated ISSN 0219-1032
Molecules and Cells is published by Springer Science+Business Media in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,500.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Molecules and Cells concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0219-1032, 1016-8478 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,500 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 4,002 |
| Publishing since | 1986 |
| Journal website | www.molcells.org/about/sub06.html |
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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