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 | 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 and Gene Therapy; -Cellular Biophysics; -Cellular Metabolism; -Cell Methods; -Cell Microenvironment; -Cells of the Cardiovascular System; -Reproductive Cells and Development; -Tissues and Organs. |
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| Cell Cycle was renamed as Cell Proliferation and Division. | |
| 2022 | The year 2022 marked the 10th Anniversary of Cells. |
| 2023 | Organelle Function was discontinued. |
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. 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 |
| 2021–2024 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Suleyman Allakhverdi for the Section on Plant, Algae and Fungi Cell Biology |
| 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 |
| 2024–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Aurelio Lorico for the Section on Intracellular and Plasma Membranes Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ralf Weiskirchen for the Section on Cell Signaling |