The study of the structure, function, and behavior of cells is known as cell biology. Cells are the building blocks of all living things. A cell is the smallest unit of life and is responsible for organisms’ survival and function. The study of the structural and functional units of cells is known as cell biology. Many journals publish key findings in the field of cell biology. The top impact factor journals in cell biology are given in this article by ilovephd.
Top Scopus Indexed Cell Biology Journals with impact factor
1. Cell – Elsevier
Impact Factor: 41.58
Cell publishes findings of unusual significance in any area of experimental biology, including but not limited to cell biology, molecular biology, neuroscience, immunology, virology and microbiology, cancer, human genetics, systems biology, signaling, and disease mechanisms and therapeutics. The basic criterion for considering papers is whether the results provide significant conceptual advances into, or raise provocative questions and hypotheses regarding an interesting and important biological question.
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2. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Impact Factor: 94.44
Molecular cell biology is a marriage of two distinct, yet complementary, disciplines. In its traditional sense, the term ‘molecular biology’ refers to the study of the macromolecules essential to life — nucleic acids and proteins. The field of cell biology is a natural extension of this, integrating what we know at the molecular level into an understanding of processes and interactions at the cellular level. Only by combining both fields can we paint a broad picture of essential biological processes such as how cells divide, grow, communicate and die.
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4. Cell Reports – Elsevier
Cell Reports publishes high-quality papers across the entire life sciences spectrum. The primary criterion for publication in Cell Reports is new biological insight.
Cell Reports features cutting-edge research, with a focus on a shorter, single-point story, called a report, in addition to a longer research article format and resources. Resources highlight significant technical advances or major informational data sets that provide new biological insight.
Impact Factor: 17.97
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3. Molecular Cell – Elsevier
Impact Factor: 9.428
Molecular Cell aims to publish the best research in molecular biology. The journal covers core cellular processes, including:
- DNA replication, recombination, and repair
- Chromatin biology and genome organization
- Transcription
- RNA processing and decay
- Non-coding RNA function
- Translation
- Protein folding, modification, and quality control
- Signal transduction pathways
- Cell cycle and checkpoints
- Cell death
- Autophagy
- Metabolism
View Journal Website: Molecular Cell
5. Nature Cell Biology
Impact Factor: 28.82
Nature Cell Biology publishes papers of the highest quality from all areas of cell biology, encouraging those that shed light on the mechanisms underlying fundamental cell biological processes. The journal’s scope is broad and specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Autophagy
- Cancer biology
- Cell adhesion and migration
- Cell cycle and growth
- Cell death
- Chromatin and epigenetics
- Cytoskeletal dynamics
- Developmental biology
- DNA replication and repair
- Mechanisms of human disease
- Mechanobiology
- Membrane traffic and dynamics
- Metabolism
- Nuclear organization and dynamics
- Organelle biology
- Proteolysis and quality control
- RNA biology
- Signal transduction
- Stem cell biology
View Journal Website: Nature Cell Biology
6. Current Biology
Impact Factor: 10.83
Current Biology is a general journal that publishes original research across all areas of biology together with an extensive and varied set of editorial sections. A primary aim of the journal is to foster communication across fields of biology, both by publishing important findings of general interest from diverse fields and through highly accessible editorial articles that explicitly aim to inform non-specialists.
Does current Biology publish papers reporting findings in any area of biology that has sufficient claim to be of general interest? this could be, for example, because the advance is important for a specific field, or because it is intrinsically of wide interest to biologists generally. We have several formats for publishing original research (articles, reports, and correspondences)
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7. The EMBO Journal
Impact Factor: 11.6
The EMBO Journal publishes papers describing original research of broad general interest in molecular and cell biology – a particular emphasis is placed on molecular mechanism and physiological relevance.
The journal encourages and publishes articles that report novel findings of wide biological significance in the areas of:
- Aging
- Autophagy
- Cancer
- Cell Adhesion, Polarity & Cytoskeleton
- Cell Cycle
- Cell Death
- Developmental Biology
- DNA Replication, Repair & Recombination
- Chromatin, Epigenetics & Genomics
- Immunology
- Membrane & Intracellular Transport
- Metabolism
- Microbiology, Virology & Host-Pathogen Interaction
- Molecular Biology of Disease
- Neuroscience
- Plant Biology
- Post-translational Modifications, Proteolysis & Proteomics
- RNA Biology
- Signal Transduction
- Stem Cells
- Structural Biology
- Systems, Chemical & Computational Biology
- Transcription
- Protein Biosynthesis & Quality Control
- Vascular Biology
View Journal Website: The EMBO Journal
8. Oncogene – Nature
Impact Factor: 9.867
Oncogene aims to make substantial advances in knowledge of processes that contribute to cancer by publishing outstanding research. We propagate work that challenges standard conjecture and builds on previous studies, in particular those that lead to establishing new paradigms in the etiopathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of cancers, and in processes that drive metastatic spread, and provide important insights into cancer biology.
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9. Development
Impact Factor: 6.866
Development is a leading primary research journal in the field of developmental biology. It is published by The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit publishing organization dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community. From its initial launch in 1953 as the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology to the present day, Development continues to publish cutting-edge research articles across the spectrum of plant and animal development, covering topics ranging from stem cells and nuclear reprogramming to evolutionary developmental and systems biology, from neurobiology to regional specification, morphogenesis, and organogenesis, and from epigenetics to the aetiology of disease.
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10. Developmental Cell – Elsevier
Impact Factor: 10.09
Developmental Cell, launched in 2001, is a broad-interest journal covering the areas of cell biology and developmental biology. In addition to publishing work spanning all areas of cell biology and developmental biology, we have a particular interest in how these fields interface with each other and with other disciplines in biology. The journal aims to showcase work that examines, through a cell biological lens, the fundamentals of how a cell works, how cells interact with one another and with the environment, how cells come together to form a tissue, organ, and ultimately a whole organism, and what happens when any of these processes go awry.
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11. Journal of Cell Biology
Impact Factor: 10.54
Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) is an international peer-reviewed journal owned by The Rockefeller University and published by Rockefeller University Press.
The Journal of Biophysical and Biochemical Cytology is designed to provide a common medium for the publication of morphological, biophysical, and biochemical investigations on cells, their components, and their products. It will give special attention to reports on cellular organization at the colloidal and molecular levels and to studies integrating cytological information derived from various technical approaches.
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12. Cell Research – Nature
Impact Factor: 25.62
Cell Research (CR) publishes original research results that are of unusual significance or broad conceptual or technical advances in all areas of life sciences, as long as the study is closely related to molecular and cell biology. The journal has international authorship and broad scope of basic research including:
- Cell growth, differentiation & apoptosis
- Signal transduction
- Stem cell biology & development
- Chromatin, epigenetics & transcription
- RNA biology
- Structural & molecular biology
- Cancer biology
- Immunity & molecular pathogenesis
- Molecular & cellular neuroscience
- Plant molecular & cell biology
- Genomics & proteomics
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13. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Impact Factor: 15.37
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology is an integrated forum for structural and molecular studies. The journal places a strong emphasis on functional and mechanistic understanding of how molecular components in a biological process work together. Structural data may provide such insights, but they are not a prerequisite for publication in the journal.
Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids, and other macromolecules
- Structure and function of multi-component complexes
- DNA replication, repair, and recombination
- Chromatin structure and remodeling
- Transcription
- RNA processing
- Translation
- Regulation of transcription and translation
- Functions of noncoding RNAs
- Protein folding, processing, and degradation
- Sorting and trafficking of proteins and RNA
- Signal transduction and intracellular signaling
- Membrane processes
- Cell surface proteins and cell-cell interactions
- Molecular basis of disease
View Journal Website: Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
14. Cell Death & Disease
Impact Factor: 7.57
Cell Death & Disease is a peer-reviewed online journal in the field of translational cell death. It seeks to promote diverse and integrated areas of experimental and internal medicine with its specialties, including cancer, immunity, and neuroscience. It is now also accepting articles in a new area: cancer metabolism.
Cell Death & Disease seeks to encompass the breadth of translational implications of cell death, and topics of particular concentration will include but are not limited to, the following:
- Experimental medicine
- Cancer
- Immunity
- Internal medicine
- Neuroscience
- Cancer metabolism
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15. Genes & Development
Impact Factor: 8.99
Genes & Development publishes high-quality research papers of broad general interest and biological significance in the areas of molecular biology, molecular genetics, and related fields. In addition to Review Articles and Perspectives, Genes & Development publishes three research formats—Research papers, short Research Communications, and Resource/Methodology papers.
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16. Trends in Cell Biology
Impact Factor: 20.808
Trends in Cell Biology is among the leading review journals in molecular and cell biology. Review articles published each month monitor the breadth and depth of current research in cell biology, reporting on new developments as they happen and integrating methods, disciplines, and principles.
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17. Molecular Biology of the Cell
Impact Factor: 3.512
MBoC publishes research articles that present conceptual advances of broad interest and significance within all areas of the cell, molecular, and developmental biology. We welcome manuscripts that describe advances with applications across topics including but not limited to: cell growth and division; nuclear and cytoskeletal processes; membrane trafficking and autophagy; organelle biology; quantitative cell biology; physical cell biology and mechanobiology; cell signaling; stem cell biology and development; cancer biology; cellular immunology and microbial pathogenesis; cellular neurobiology; prokaryotic cell biology; and cell biology of disease.
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18. Cell Death and Differentiation
Impact Factor: 15.83
Cell Death & Differentiation is devoted itself to scientific excellence in the field of cell biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry of cell death and disease. To provide a unified forum for scientists and clinical researchers. It is committed to the rapid publication of high-quality original papers relating to these subjects, together with topical, usually solicited, reviews, meeting reports, editorial correspondence, and occasional commentaries on controversial and scientifically informative issues.
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19. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
Impact Factor:
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology — a new online publication spanning the complete spectrum of the molecular life sciences. Each issue includes reviews covering a wide variety of topics in the molecular, cell, and developmental biology, genetics, neuroscience, immunology, cancer biology, and molecular pathology. Contributions are written by leading researchers in each field and commissioned by a board of eminent academic editors
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20. Journal of Cell Science
Impact Factor: 5.285
Journal of Cell Science is an international peer-reviewed journal in the field of cell biology that is published by The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit charitable organization run by biologists for the benefit of the biological community. Journal of Cell Science is committed to publishing the full range of topics in cell biology, and the single most important criterion for acceptance is scientific excellence. Articles must therefore pose and test a significant hypothesis that will provide novel perspectives and approaches to understanding cell biology, and will stimulate the interest of the broad readership of the journal
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