About the Journal

Aim and scope

Cell Reviews is a new peer-reviewed journal of Rviews Press that aims at assembling and publishing review, commentary and discussion articles to outline perspectives on outstanding new discoveries, insights and published data in biology and biomedical research.
We aim to foster the application of new insights in life science, improve public access to scientific discoveries and inspire trans-disciplinarity.
 
Our interest includes stemming hypotheses and ideas based on published materials in biology and biomedical research to envision the future therapeutic approaches and progress in human lifestyles. Original articles composed of only unpublished data are out of the scope of the journal. 
 
 

Keywords

Cell biology, molecular biology, microbiology, neuroscience, physiology, pathology, immunology, inflammation, vascular biology, cell migration, cell growth, cell division, cancer, chronic inflammatory diseases, omics, genetics, epigenetics, translational biology, system biology, developmental biology, plant biology, science communication, science vulgarization, translational medicine, biotechnology, synthetic biology, science conceptualization, science contextualization, public access to science, science education, popular science, public knowledge.
 
 

Open Access policies

As a journal of Rviews Press, Cell Reviews promotes publishing policies that are compliant with the Plan S initiative for Open Access publishing.
 
The Plan S was initiated by cOAlition S, an international consortium of national research funding organisations that received support from the European Commission. Plan S proposes that all scientific publications resulting from research that was funded by private and public grants must be published in Open Access journals or platforms since 2021.
 
The authors, before submission, must agree with the fact that once accepted and published in Open Access, their materials including but not limited to articles, images or data, will be freely accessible by anyone under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY).
 
 

Copyright and licensing policies

The authors of articles published in Cell Reviews (Marseille, France) retain the copyright at no extra cost after the article publishing charge (APC) payment or its waiver in agreement with the journal office. As stated above, all articles in Cell Reviews are published under CC BY, thus anyone including the authors have freedom to access, modify and redistribute the material on condition that the authors are adequately credited of the authorship.
 
 

Article Processing Charge and pricing policies

Cell Reviews (Marseille, France) invites for major part of the articles that are published depending on the article type.
For none-invited articles, Cell Reviews applies a transparent pricing based on the article publishing charge that is fixed by the journal in agreement with Rviews Press.
APC covers the cost for article processing, persistent identification, indexing, spreading through networks or libraries and long-term digital preservation.
 
The APC for suitable articles in Cell Reviews is 2100 euro.
 
This is announced to the author during submission. The payment of APC or its waiver is formally due before publication.
 
 

Authors from low-income countries and APC waivers

Rviews Press promotes responsible and fair scholarly publishing in life science community providing the same opportunity to all institutional and independent scientists around the world. Thus, Cell Reviews provides APC waivers or discount to authors from low-income economy countries, lower middle-income economy countries, as well as authors with demonstrated needs
 
 

Editorial timeline

Editorial initial decision: 6 days
Peer-review evaluation: 2-3 weeks
Editorial development and production: 1-2 weeks
 
These are estimated durations of the editorial process from submission to publication online. The actual timeline may be different and may reflect specific cases.
 
 

Long-term digital preservation policies

Cell Reviews (Marseille, France) follows the archiving and preservation policies of Rviews Press. The journal uses two long-term preservations and self-archiving plans:

All articles of a published issue is automatically dark archived through PKP PN process. The published volumes are annually archived through the Internet Archives plan.

 

Review policies

Cell Reviews (Marseille, France) follows a review policy that is compliant with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editor (ICMJE), and follows the Declaration of Vision and Mission of Rviews Press.
 
By submitting, the authors attest that neither the manuscript nor associated contents were previously published elsewhere and that they are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. However, we encourage reproduction studies and reports but should be clearly exposed in the manuscript key sections such as title, abstract and in the background information section.
 
Cell Reviews and Rviews Press use several open source and commercial tools for plagiarism detection during evaluation. Scientific misconduct including data fabrication, falsification, non-declaration of conflicts of interest, plagiarism are taken seriously and will be addressed following the guidelines of necessary authorities.
 
All manuscripts are evaluated by editors and/or external experts prior to publication, excepted the two types of articles mainly published by members of the editorial team namely: Editorial instructions and Editorial communications. This policy is explained for each type of article in the guidelines for authors.
 
Briefly, the submitted manuscripts undergo the initial evaluation by the handling editor to check for the journal quality standards and fitting within Cell Reviews Aim and scope. The authors are notified for the editorial decision whether to pursue with further scientific, technical and ethical evaluations through peer-reviewing. The peer-reviewing steps in Cell Reviews aims at rigorously evaluating the work, building a strong story with forward-looking perspectives in collaboration with the editor and the peer-reviewers. A correspondence is then established between the authors, editors and the reviewers until the manuscript complies with the highest quality standards for publication in Cell Reviews. The manuscript is then accepted, copyedited and published in agreement with the authors, editors and reviewers.
 
Cell Reviews and Rviews Press recognize the effort and expertise provided by the reviewers and academic editors during the manuscript evaluation as well as through the editorial process. Thus the names of the editors and reviewers are included in a special section within the published article allowing them to record and track their roles through several services including ORCID and others.
 
Editors and reviewers are provided with incentives including APC waivers, credits and discounts on their publications. In the cases of independent or professional reviewers, the gratification can be cash to promote their participation in the process.
 
Rviews Press through Cell Reviews aims at fostering the commitment of young researchers and independent researchers. Thus, we solicitate the implication of earl career life scientists also in the evaluation and editorial processes.
 
 

Post-publication discussion

Cell Reviews encourages discussion of a published article for free through Correspondence and News&Views articles that will be published under the CC BY license.
 
 
 

Indexing Information

Ongoing registration for indexing and abstracting to:
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate)
  • MEDLINE/Pubmed (NLM)
  • Journal Citation Report (Clarivate)
  • Journal Citation Index (Clarivate)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • Google scholar (Google)
  • SCOPUS (Elsevier)
  • Web of Science (Clarivate)
  • Embase (Elsevier)
  • ProQuest Periodicals Index Online (Clarivate)
  • JSTOR (ITHAKA)
  • EBSCO database (EBSCO)