Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Current Opinion in Cell Biology is published by Elsevier Ltd and is in Zone 2 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions and Cellular transport and secretion, together about 26.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Current Opinion in Cell Biology (COCEBI) publishes authoritative, comprehensive, and systematic reviews. COCEBI helps specialists keep up to date with a clear and readable synthesis on current advances cell biology. Expert authors annotate the most interesting papers from the expanding volume of information published today, saving valuable time and giving the reader insight on areas of importance.Current Opinion in Cell Biology serves as an invaluable source of information for researchers, lecturers, teachers, professionals, policy makers and students. The subject of cell biology is divided into six themed sections, each of which is reviewed once a year. Themes include cell architecture; cell signaling; cell nucleus; membrane trafficking; cell dynamics; and stem cells.The journal builds on Elsevier's reputation for excellence in scientific publishing and long-standing commitment to communicating reproducible biomedical research targeted at improving human health.Expertise – Expert authors, who are leaders in their field, are invited to write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject and provide short annotations to the papers that they think are most relevant.Comprehensiveness – There are 27 high-impact Current Opinion review journals in a range of subjects from food science to green and sustainable chemistry.Impact – In addition to a vast readership, Current Opinion titles enjoy high citations, Impact Factors, and CiteScores.Selection of topics to be reviewed Section Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasised. Section Editors commission reviews from authorities on each topic that they have selected. Reviews Authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasising the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.Editorial Overview Section Editors write a short overview at the beginning of the section to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particularly interesting developments.Ethics in Publishing: General Statement The Editor(s) and Publisher of this Journal believe that there are fundamental principles underlying scholarly or professional publishing. While this may not amount to a formal 'code of conduct', these fundamental principles with respect to the authors' paper are that the paper should: i) be the authors' own original work, which has not been previously published elsewhere, ii) reflect the authors' own research and analysis and do so in a truthful and complete manner, iii) properly credit the meaningful contributions of co-authors and co-researchers, iv) not be submitted to more than one journal for consideration, and v) be appropriately placed in the context of prior and existing research. Of equal importance are ethical guidelines dealing with research methods and research funding, including issues dealing with informed consent, research subject privacy rights, conflicts of interest, and sources of funding. While it may not be possible to draft a 'code' that applies adequately to all instances and circumstances, we believe it useful to outline our expectations of authors and procedures that the Journal will employ in the event of questions concerning author conduct. With respect to conflicts of interest, the Publisher now requires authors to declare any conflicts of interest that relate to papers accepted for publication in this Journal. A conflict of interest may exist when an author or the author's institution has a financial or other relationship with other people or organizations that may inappropriately influence the auth

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Cell Biology

Editor-in-chief Anne RidleyPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United States 21, Japan 8, Germany 8, United Kingdom 3, France 2 (59 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

6.16LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

6.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

2.85LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.36LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

242LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

336OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,416OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

7.09OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

3.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

58.25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

98LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

4–8 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

HardLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

10 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

58 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance

96 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

26 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

1989

ISSN

0955-0674

Electronic ISSN

1879-0410

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website