Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Cell Biology journal rankings 2021
27 ranked journals · Subfield in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Cell Biology has 27 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2020 to 0.93, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.00. The top three are Fungal Diversity, Studies in Mycology, and Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
27 ranked journals
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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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Fungal DiversitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 7.59Q1 | 26.26 6.08 up from 2020 | 62 | 41% | $3,490 | ||
2Studies in MycologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.63Q1 | 20.65 3.36 up from 2020 | 42 | 100% | $1,430 | ||
3Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of FungiNational Herbarium of the Netherlands · Netherlands | 3.26Q1 | 8.28 0.66 up from 2020 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
4Matrix BiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.91Q1 | 7.70 2.50 down from 2020 | 267 | 68% | $4,280 | ||
5MycosphereOAGuizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences | 2.62Q1 | 15.17 11.30 up from 2020 | 93 | 100% | — | ||
6IMA FungusOABioMed Central · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 8.96 4.75 up from 2020 | 91 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
7The Journal of Cell BiologyRockefeller University Press · United States | 2.00Q1 | 6.88 1.33 down from 2020 | 936 | 99% | — | ||
8Journal of the International Society of Sports NutritionOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.92Q2 | 5.75 0.66 down from 2020 | 178 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
9International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise MetabolismHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.80Q2 | 4.43 1.84 down from 2020 | 195 | 35% | — | ||
10TrafficWiley · United Kingdom | 1.56Q2 | 5.26 0.94 down from 2020 | 194 | 51% | $4,650 | ||
11Fungal Systematics and EvolutionIngenta · Netherlands | 1.07Q2 | 3.19 0.31 down from 2020 | 77 | 90% | — | ||
12MycoKeysOAPensoft Publishers · Bulgaria | 1.04Q2 | 3.19 0.43 up from 2020 | 268 | 100% | $970 | ||
13Pigment Cell & Melanoma ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 3.95 0.44 up from 2020 | 230 | 43% | $5,000 | ||
14Molecular Biology of the CellAmerican Society for Cell Biology · United States | 0.93Q2 | 3.55 0.37 down from 2020 | 791 | 99% | — | ||
15Cellular and Molecular BioengineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.83Q3 | 3.76 1.10 up from 2020 | 140 | 100% | $3,690 | ||
16ZebrafishMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.81Q3 | 2.53 0.56 up from 2020 | 169 | 40% | — | ||
17MycobiologyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 2.24 0.14 down from 2020 | 188 | 100% | $1,134 | ||
18CytoskeletonWiley · United States | 0.64Q3 | 2.51 0.15 up from 2020 | 136 | 46% | $3,920 | ||
19Plant DiseaseAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 0.61Q3 | 1.90 0.39 up from 2020 | 3,129 | 18% | — | ||
20Cell Structure and FunctionOAJapan Society of Cell Biology · Japan | 0.53Q3 | 2.22 0.06 down from 2020 | 48 | 100% | $753 | ||
21Forest PathologyWiley · Germany | 0.52Q3 | 1.51 0.10 up from 2020 | 233 | 27% | $3,680 | ||
| 0.29Q4 | 0.85 0.06 up from 2020 | 108 | 100% | — | |||
23Studies in FungiOAUnited States | 0.24Q4 | 0.66 0.13 up from 2020 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
24MycotaxonMycotaxon Publications · United States | 0.15Q4 | 0.45 0.09 up from 2020 | 274 | 100% | — | ||
25Journal of Exercise and NutritionOAUnited States | 0.14Q4 | 0.45 0.06 up from 2020 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
26Mycologia iranicaOAPublisher not listed | 0.14Q4 | 0.36 0.01 up from 2020 | 48 | — | — | ||
27The AAO JournalUnited States | 0.03Q4 | 0.03 0.03 down from 2020 | 58 | 19% | — |
Subfields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with Cell Biology highlighted.
- Molecular Biology1,136
- Genetics120
- Cancer Research27
- Cell Biology27
- Molecular Medicine9
- Biophysics8
- Clinical Biochemistry4
- Biochemistry2
- Endocrinology2
- Structural Biology2
- Developmental Biology1
- Physiology1
- Aging0
- Biotechnology0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 27
- Window papers (baseline)
- 48,572 +4.9% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.93 -3.0% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.