Journal rankings · indicator year 2004

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Subfield ranking · 2004

Cell Biology journal rankings 2004

14 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Indicator year

Cell Biology has 14 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2003 to 0.58, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.76. The top three are The Journal of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology of the Cell, and Traffic.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 score is computed on.

2% of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Median OJR

The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.

The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.

The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.

0.58-0.11 vs 2003

This subfieldAll 0.76World 1.00

Open-access journals

Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.

14%

All fields: 14%

Median listed APC

Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.

$3,680

Median positive listed APC: $3,680 among 5 journals. 9 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14)

14 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access

APC (list price)

Publisher country

Cell Biology ranking, 2004
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.	OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. OJR	Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.	Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.	Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal.	List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed.
1The Journal of Cell BiologyRockefeller University Press · United States	2.86Q1	8.23 0.99 down from 2003	1,949	100%	—
2Molecular Biology of the CellAmerican Society for Cell Biology · United States	2.27Q1	7.15 0.04 down from 2003	1,271	94%	—
3TrafficWiley · United Kingdom	2.18Q1	6.91 0.23 up from 2003	299	50%	$4,650
4Matrix BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands	1.76Q1	5.01 1.18 up from 2003	180	5%	$4,280
5Cell Structure and FunctionOAJapan Society of Cell Biology · Japan	1.10Q2	3.12 0.66 up from 2003	142	73%	$753
6Cell Motility and the CytoskeletonWiley · United States	0.92Q2	3.25 0.40 up from 2003	213	9%	—
7International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise MetabolismHuman Kinetics · United States	0.61Q2	1.57 0.11 up from 2003	147	5%	—
8Pigment Cell ResearchWiley · United Kingdom	0.56Q3	2.12 0.26 down from 2003	273	17%	—
9Plant DiseaseAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States	0.52Q3	0.97 0.04 down from 2003	1,241	11%	—
10Forest PathologyWiley · Germany	0.41Q3	0.87 0.17 down from 2003	117	0%	$3,680
11Artificial Cells Blood Substitutes and BiotechnologyMarcel Dekker · United States	0.39Q3	1.15 0.19 up from 2003	106	90%	—
12MycotaxonMycotaxon Publications · United States	0.15Q4	0.26 0.07 up from 2003	598	80%	—
13MycologistCambridge University Press · United Kingdom	0.09Q4	0.19 0.07 up from 2003	262	8%	—
14MycobiologyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom	0.05Q4	0.20 0.10 down from 2003	132	5%	$1,134

Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

8 additional Cell Biology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals: 14
Window papers (baseline): 28,595 +9.6% from indicator year 2001
Median OJR: 0.58 +19.9% from indicator year 2001
Rising journals (2025): 0

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.

Category by indicator year
Measure	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Ranked journals	9	13	13	14	14	15	15	17	17	18	20	21	23	23	25	26	26	26	26	28	29	27	26	26	26	28
Window papers (baseline)	24,175	26,095	26,848	28,230	28,595	30,386	31,571	33,480	34,997	37,219	39,550	41,495	42,942	43,746	44,744	45,786	46,287	46,555	46,301	46,573	47,050	48,572	49,897	50,588	49,670	49,714
Median OJR	0.52	0.48	0.51	0.69	0.58	0.63	0.64	0.90	0.68	0.92	1.09	1.17	1.06	0.94	0.91	0.865	1.02	1.07	0.96	0.859	0.85	0.93	0.82	0.864	0.76	0.75

How to read these rankings

OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator: A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
Quartiles: Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
Impact factor (2-year): Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
Rank ranges: Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.