About this journal

Aims and scope

Cell Adhesion & Migration is a multidisciplinary fully open access journal focused on the biological or pathological implications of cell-cell and cell-microenvironment interactions.

Research published in Cell Adhesion & Migration serves a broad readership by covering all topics important in the field of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions including:

  • Assembly of cell adhesion complexes
  • Biological functions and molecular interactions of ECM molecules
  • Cytoskeleton plasticity and related signalling cascades
  • Cell fusion and cell intercalation
  • Immune synapse formation
  • Axon growth and guidance
  • Cell biomechanics
  • Biomaterials
  • Development of imaging technologies

Cell Adhesion & Migration publishes relevant and timely original research, as well as authoritative overviews, commentaries, and perspectives, providing context for the work presented in the journal and for key results published elsewhere.

The journal operates a single-anonymized peer review policy.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 218K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 3.3 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 3.3 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 6.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.847 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.980 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 58 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 91 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 22% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief
Prof Claire Wells

Kings College London, UK
Prof Ulhas Naik
Thomas Jefferson University, USA

Acquisitions Editor
Dr Azaam M. Samad - San Diego Biomedical Research Institute, USA

Associate Editors
Prof Luis E Arias Romero, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Dr Camilla Cerutti, Brunel University, London, UK
Dr Matt Jones, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Dr Fadi Kwasaneh, Texas A&M, Kingsville, USA
Dr JustinaLathia, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA


Editorial Board
Nancy J. Boudreau, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
Vania Braga,  Imperial College London , London, UK
Claire M. Brown,  McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Suzanne A. Eccles,  Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Peter Friedl,  Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences,  Nijmegen, Netherlands
Benjamin Geiger,  Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Jian-Guo Geng, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Christine Gilles,  Université de Liège, Liège, France
Magdalena Götz ,  Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany
Jacky G. Goetz,  Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France
Jun-Lin Guan, Ann Arbor,  University of Michigan, MI, USA
Donald Ingber, Boston, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA
Peter J. Koch,  Brody School of Medicine East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Deborah Leckband,  University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, IL
Thomas Lecuit, Institute of Developmental Biology of Marseilles, Marseille , France
Santos Mañes,  National Center of Biotechnology, CSIC, France
Paul Martin,  University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Arthur M. Mercurio,  University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
Kaoru Miyazaki,  Yokohama City University, Yokahama, JapanMichelle Peckham,  University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Jose Orgaz, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
Derek C. Radisky,  Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Melitta Schachner,  Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi,  Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Luca Tamagnone,  University of Torino Medical School, Turin, Italy
Antonella Viola,  University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Denis Wirtz,  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Chuanyue Wu,  University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Zhi-Cheng Xiao, Singapore,  Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Bruce R. Zetter,  Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
James Q. Zheng,  Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

Abstracting and indexing

Indexing services

  • Biological Abstracts (Online)
  • BIOSIS Previews
  • DOAJ
  • EBSCOhost
  • Embase
  • MEDLINE
  • PubMed Central
  • Science Citation
  • Index Expanded Scopus

Open access

Cell Adhesion & Migration is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

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