Developmental Cell

Developmental Cell is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cell Press, launched in 2001 as a companion to Cell and Molecular Cell, spanning the interface of cell biology and developmental biology, and it held a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.2《发育细胞》（Developmental Cell）是由（Cell Press）出版的同行评审期刊，2001 年创刊，作为（Cell）与（Molecular Cell）的姊妹刊，覆盖细胞生物学与发育生物学的交叉领域，2025 年影响因子为 9.2。

Scope

• Developmental Cell is a broad-interest journal covering cell biology and developmental biology, with particular interest in how these fields interface with each other and with other disciplines in biology该刊是覆盖细胞生物学与发育生物学的广泛兴趣期刊，尤其关注这两个领域彼此以及与其他生物学学科的交叉。
• It examines, through a cell biological lens, how a cell works, how cells interact with one another and with the environment, and how they assemble into tissues, organs and whole organisms它透过细胞生物学的视角，考察细胞如何运作、细胞之间以及细胞与环境如何相互作用，以及细胞如何组装成组织、器官乃至完整个体。
• It also asks what happens when any of these processes go awry, linking cell biology to disease该刊还探究这些过程失常时会发生什么，把细胞生物学与疾病联系起来。
• Papers are considered in any area of cell biology or developmental biology, as well as at the interface between either field and any other area of biology期刊接收细胞生物学或发育生物学任何方向的论文，也接收任一方向与生物学其他领域交叉的论文。
• Representative topics include signaling, cell proliferation, polarity, cell migration, and cell lineage and fate specification代表性主题包括信号传导、细胞增殖、极性、细胞迁移，以及细胞谱系与命运决定。
• Further topics are chromatin regulation and function, cancer cell biology, evolutionary developmental biology, disease etiology, membrane traffic, and metabolic regulation其他主题包括染色质调控与功能、癌细胞生物学、演化发育生物学、疾病成因、膜运输与代谢调控。
• The journal also covers morphogenesis and biomechanics, organ development, non-coding RNAs, stem cell biology and regeneration, and it welcomes Resource and Technology papers built on large datasets or new tools该刊还涵盖形态发生与生物力学、器官发育、非编码 RNA、干细胞生物学与再生，并欢迎基于大数据集或新工具的（Resource）与（Technology）类论文。

History

• Developmental Cell was launched in 2001 as a daughter journal to Cell and a companion to Molecular Cell, publishing fundamental advances in cell biology and developmental biology该刊于 2001 年创刊，作为（Cell）的子刊与（Molecular Cell）的姊妹刊，发表细胞生物学与发育生物学的基础性进展。^[1]
• It is published by Cell Press, the life-science imprint of Elsevier based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States该刊由（Cell Press）出版，后者是（Elsevier）旗下的生命科学品牌，位于美国马萨诸塞州剑桥。
• It appears in 24 issues a year and is edited by full-time PhD-trained scientific editors该刊每年出版 24 期，由全职的博士级科学编辑负责。
• All articles become free to read 12 months after publication所有文章在发表 12 个月后免费开放阅读。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 12.27 in 2021 and 13.417 in 2022 to 8.7 in 2024 and 9.2 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 12.27 与 2022 年的 13.417 变为 2024 年的 8.7 与 2025 年的 9.2。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it ranked second of 39 journals in developmental biology and 32nd of 207 in cell biology在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，该刊在 39 种发育生物学期刊中排名第 2，在 207 种细胞生物学期刊中排名第 32。

Editors

• J. Ann Le Good is the editor-in-chief of Developmental Cell at Cell Press主编为（Cell Press）的（J. Ann Le Good）。^[2]
• The journal is run by an in-house team of scientific editors who work with authors, reviewers and editorial board members on every manuscript该刊由内部科学编辑团队运营，编辑与作者、审稿人及编委会成员共同处理每一篇稿件。
• An international editorial board of established cell and developmental biologists advises the journal on its scope and editorial policy由资深细胞与发育生物学家组成的国际编委会，就期刊范围与编辑方针向编辑部提供建议。
• The journal is peer reviewed, and the primary criterion for publication, as for all Cell Press journals, is new biological insight该刊实行同行评审，与所有（Cell Press）期刊一样，其发表的首要标准是新的生物学认识。
• It publishes research articles alongside reviews and perspectives tailored to its broad readership除研究论文外，该刊还面向其广泛读者发表综述与观点文章。
• Manuscripts are submitted and tracked through the publisher's online submission system稿件通过出版方的在线投稿系统提交与跟踪。