Journal History
| 2012 | The inaugural issue was released. Cells was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2013 | Cells was indexed in PubMed. |
| 2015 | Cells established the following sections: -Cell Motility and Adhesion; -Cell Signaling and Regulated Cell Death; -Cell Nuclei: Function, Transport and Receptors; -Autophagy and Organelle Function. |
| 2016 | Cells announced the first edition of the Travel Award. |
| 2017 | Cells was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded - Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics). |
| 2018 | Cells received its first Impact Factor (4.829). |
| Cells established the following section: -Stem Cells. |
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| Cells announced the first edition of the Young Investigator Award. | |
| 2019 | Cells became an affiliated journal of the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM). |
| Cells established the following sections: -Plant, Algae and Fungi Cell Biology; -Cellular Immunology; -Cellular Pathology. |
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| 2020 | Cells announced the first edition of the Outstanding Reviewer Award and Academic Conference Grants Award. |
| Cells established the following sections: -Cells of the Nervous System; -Cell Cycle; -Cellular Aging. |
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| 2021 |
The year 2021 marked the 10th Anniversary of Cells. Cells was indexed in Scopus. Cells announced the first edition of the Highly Cited Paper Award, Best Paper Award for Anniversary Special Issues, PhD Thesis Award and Best Video Abstract Award. Cells established the following Sections: Cell Cycle was renamed as Cell Proliferation and Division. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2012–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alexander E. Kalyuzhny |
| 2020–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Cord Brakebusch |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2019–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Paolo Bernardi for the Section on Organelle Function Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alexander V. Ljubimov for the Section on Stem Cells |
| 2019–2021 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Christian Behl for the Section on Autophagy |
| 2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Francisco Rivero for the Section on Cell Motility and Adhesion Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Stephen Yarwood for the Section on Cell Signaling Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Miyamoto for the Section on Cell Nuclei: Function, Transport and Receptors Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alessandro Poggi for the Section on Cellular Immunology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ritva Tikkanen for the Section on Cellular Pathology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Christoph Englert for the Section on Cellular Aging |
| 2021–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Kay-Dietrich Wagner for the Section on Cells of the Cardiovascular System Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alexander Dityatev for the Section on Cell Microenvironment Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Suleyman Allakhverdi for the Section on Plant, Algae and Fungi Cell Biology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Naweed I. Syed for the Section on Cells of the Nervous System Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Fulvio Reggiori for the Section on Autophagy Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Christian Neri for the Section on Cellular Metabolism |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Bruce A. Bunnell for the Section on Tissues and Organs Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hengst for the Section on Cell Proliferation and Division Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yu Xue for the Section on Cell Methods |
