Journal profile · Cell & Tissue Engineering
Cell Transplantation
ISSN 0963-6897 · eISSN 1555-3892 · SAGE Publications Inc. · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly
Cell Transplantation: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.59; fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; review about 1 month (community reports); community-reported acceptance: about 25%; 91 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Cell Transplantation is published by SAGE Publications Inc. and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Pancreatic function and diabetes, Mesenchymal stem cell research and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, together about 34% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Cell Transplantation Impact Factor: 3.3Indexed In: CABI: CAB Abstracts, CABI: Global Health, Clarivate Analytics: BIOSIS Previews, Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents - Life Sciences, Clarivate Analytics: Science Citation Index, Clarivate Analytics: Science Citation Index Expanded, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), PubMed Central (PMC), PubMed: MEDLINE, SCOPUS Cell Transplantation is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focusses on cell transplantation and its applications. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).Submission information Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/celltransplantation Please see the Submission Guidelines tab for more information on how to submit your article to the journal. Open access article processing charge (APC) information Publication is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC). The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons licence. The APC for this journal is currently $3200. Commentary is free of charge The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.Contact Please direct any queries to celltrans@sagepub.co.uk
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Cell & Tissue Engineering
Editor-in-chief Hidetaka HaraPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 20 in mainland China (about 51%); most named Mainland China 20, United States 10, Japan 3, Taiwan, China 2, United Kingdom 1 (39 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Pancreatic function and diabetesMedicine13.5%
- Mesenchymal stem cell researchMedicine12.6%
- Tissue Engineering and Regenerative MedicineMedicine7.8%
- Pluripotent Stem Cells ResearchBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7%
- Nerve injury and regenerationNeuroscience6.8%
- Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanismsNeuroscience6.1%
- Liver physiology and pathologyMedicine4.7%
- Diabetes and associated disordersBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Transplantation | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Cell & Tissue Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, Research & Experimental | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Cell & Tissue Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Medicine, Research & Experimental | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Transplantation | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Cell & Tissue Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, Research & Experimental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Transplantation | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 3.59LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.91LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.79LetPub ·
- h-index
- 90LetPub ·
- h-index
- 139OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3,132OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.7OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 8.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 80LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,232 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 90 | 90 | 31 |
| 2025 | 91 | 91 | 294 |
| 2024 | 92 | 92 | 685 |
| 2023 | 111 | 111 | 1,090 |
| 2022 | 106 | 106 | 1,348 |
| 2021 | 142 | 142 | 2,780 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 1 monthLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 25%LetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 46.7%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 34 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 15 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,650 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–200 words
- Reference style
- Chicago
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted8, with length limits
- case studyView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/cll/collections/special-issues/call-for-papers Please visit the …Length not stated
- commentaryre research of regenerative medicine. A Commentary article should have no more than 1,500 words in the main text, with a maximum of 1 display item and up tmain text ≤ 1,500 words
- lettertable as a standard research article. A Letter should be no more 1500 words and no more than 15 references, and only one display item.main text ≤ 1,500 words
- original articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/cll/collections/special-issues/call-for-papers Please visit the …Length not stated
- original researchView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/cll/collections/special-issues/call-for-papers Please visit the …Length not stated
- original research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/cll/collections/special-issues/call-for-papers Please visit the …Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/cll/collections/special-issues/call-for-papers Please visit the …Length not stated
- review articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/cll/collections/special-issues/call-for-papers Please visit the …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Cell Transplantation is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the fund…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency:Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk reject…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- ISSN
- 0963-6897
- Electronic ISSN
- 1555-3892
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Cell Transplantation
What CAS zone is Cell Transplantation in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Cell Transplantation is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Transplantation / Cell & Tissue Engineering / Medicine, Research & Experimental. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Cell Transplantation?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.59; CiteScore 6, h-index 139.
How long does peer review take at Cell Transplantation?
Authors report an average review time of about 1 month; the community-reported acceptance is “about 25%”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 46.7%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Cell Transplantation?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–200 words; Reference style: Chicago; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Cell Transplantation based?
Of the 39 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 20 (about 51%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (20), United States (10) and Japan (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Cell Transplantation?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Cell Transplantation is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Cell Transplantation open access, and what is the APC?
Cell Transplantation is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .