Molecular Biology of the Cell

This article is about the journal. Not to be confused with Molecular Biology of the Cell (textbook).

Molecular Biology of the Cell is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society for Cell Biology. It covers research on the molecular basis of cell structure and function. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 4.803.^[1] It was originally established as Cell Regulation in 1989.

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Discipline	Cell biology, genetics, developmental biology
Language	English
Edited by	Matthew Welch
Publication details
Former name(s)	Cell Regulation
History	1989-present
Publisher	American Society for Cell Biology (United States)
Frequency	Biweekly
Open access	Delayed, after 2 months
Impact factor	3.512 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Mol. Biol. Cell
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	MBCEEV
ISSN	1059-1524 (print) 1939-4586 (web)
LCCN	92660504
OCLC no.	39378688
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The Editor-in-Chief is Matthew Welch (University of California, Berkeley).^[2] Previous Editors-in-Chief include: Erkki Ruoslahti (of Cell Regulation) and David Botstein and Keith Yamamoto (of MBoC) and their successors Sandra Schmid and David Drubin.^[3]