Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Cell Biology journal rankings 2009
18 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Cell Biology has 18 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.24 on 2008 to 0.92, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.50. The top three are Traffic, Molecular Biology of the Cell, and The Journal of Cell Biology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 score is computed on.
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.
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.
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.
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14)
18 ranked journals
Filters
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. | 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2009. | Compare |
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1TrafficWiley · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 6.40 0.66 up from 2008 | 493 | 62% | $4,650 | ||
2Molecular Biology of the CellAmerican Society for Cell Biology · United States | 2.18Q1 | 6.20 0.24 up from 2008 | 1,424 | 99% | — | ||
3The Journal of Cell BiologyRockefeller University Press · United States | 2.15Q1 | 6.01 0.26 up from 2008 | 2,141 | 89% | — | ||
4Studies in MycologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 5.47 1.07 up from 2008 | 93 | 100% | $1,430 | ||
5Matrix BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 3.45 0.19 up from 2008 | 206 | 40% | $4,280 | ||
6Pigment Cell ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 3.24 0.75 down from 2008 | 120 | — | — | ||
7Cell Structure and FunctionOAJapan Society of Cell Biology · Japan | 1.14Q2 | 3.30 1.05 up from 2008 | 54 | 100% | $753 | ||
8Cell Motility and the CytoskeletonWiley · United States | 1.13Q2 | 3.11 0.29 up from 2008 | 218 | 34% | — | ||
9Pigment Cell & Melanoma ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 2.48 0.20 up from 2008 | 124 | 55% | $5,000 | ||
10International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise MetabolismHuman Kinetics · United States | 0.91Q3 | 2.01 0.16 down from 2008 | 137 | 8% | — | ||
11Plant DiseaseAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 0.71Q3 | 1.25 0.13 up from 2008 | 1,504 | 9% | — | ||
12Journal of the International Society of Sports NutritionOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.70Q3 | 1.55 0.58 up from 2008 | 74 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
13ZebrafishMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.62Q3 | 1.16 0.07 up from 2008 | 128 | 43% | — | ||
14Forest PathologyWiley · Germany | 0.51Q3 | 1.14 0.39 down from 2008 | 134 | 6% | $3,680 | ||
15Artificial Cells Blood Substitutes and BiotechnologyMarcel Dekker · United States | 0.50Q4 | 0.98 0.16 down from 2008 | 128 | 95% | — | ||
16Cellular and Molecular BioengineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.38Q4 | 0.79no 2008 value | 39 | 60% | $3,690 | — | |
17MycotaxonMycotaxon Publications · United States | 0.11Q4 | 0.21 0.03 up from 2008 | 705 | 98% | — | ||
18MycobiologyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.20 0.04 down from 2008 | 146 | 100% | $1,134 |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Cell Biology highlighted.
- Molecular Biology801
- Genetics85
- Cancer Research22
- Cell Biology18
- Molecular Medicine7
- Biophysics6
- Biochemistry3
- Aging2
- Clinical Biochemistry2
- Structural Biology2
- Developmental Biology1
- Endocrinology1
- Physiology1
- Biotechnology0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
9 additional Cell Biology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 18
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,219 +17.9% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.92 +42.0% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.
| Measure | Year series | 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 |
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| 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.