Protein & Cell publishes original research articles, reviews, and commentaries concerning the latest developments in multidisciplinary areas in biology and biomedicine, with an emphasis on protein and cell research.

Subject areas include biochemistry/biophysics, cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, oncology, protein science, structural biology and translational medicine. In addition, Protein & Cell addresses research highlights, news and views, and commentaries covering research policies and funding trends in China, and provides a forum to foster academic exchange among researchers across different fields of the life sciences.

Protein & Cell is a peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly. The open access fees (article-processing charges) for this journal are kindly sponsored by Higher Education Press, Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Biophysical Society of China. Authors can publish in the journal without any additional charges.

  • Provides a forum to foster academic exchange among researchers across different fields of the life sciences
  • Presents research highlights, news and views, and commentaries covering research policies and funding trends in China
  • Covers the latest developments in multidisciplinary areas in biology and biomedicine, emphasizing protein and cell research

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Editor-in-Chief
  • Zihe Rao
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10.164 (2019)
Impact factor
7.978 (2019)
Five year impact factor
565,921 (2019)
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Volume 11

Issue 10, October 2020

Special Issue: DHODH inhibitors fight SARS-CoV-2

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Electronic ISSN
1674-8018
Print ISSN
1674-800X
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Co-publication with Higher Education Press
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  1. BIOSIS
  2. Biological Abstracts
  3. CNKI
  4. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA
  6. Chinese Science Citation Database
  7. DOAJ
  8. Dimensions
  9. EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection
  10. EBSCO Discovery Service
  11. EBSCO STM Source
  12. EMBASE
  13. EMBiology
  14. Google Scholar
  15. Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
  16. Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
  17. Medline
  18. Meta
  19. Naver
  20. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  21. Pathway Studio
  22. ProQuest Biological Science Database
  23. ProQuest Central
  24. ProQuest Health & Medical Collection
  25. ProQuest Health Research Premium Collection
  26. ProQuest Medical Database
  27. ProQuest Natural Science Collection
  28. ProQuest Pharma Collection
  29. ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection
  30. ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
  31. ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
  32. PubMedCentral
  33. Reaxys
  34. SCImago
  35. SCOPUS
  36. Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch)
  37. TD Net Discovery Service
  38. UGC-CARE List (India)
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