Cell Reports Medicine Impact Factor (JIF)

Cell Reports Medicine’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF)

Cell Reports Medicine’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is the Clarivate-computed, journal-level citation ratio this journal receives each year in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) — citations in the JCR data year to the journal’s citable items from the two preceding years, divided by that item count. Cell Reports Medicine is a Cell Press open-access journal, launched in 2020, publishing translational and clinical biomedical research — distinct from its broader-scope sister title Cell Reports, which covers life sciences generally and carries its own separate JIF. Multiple third-party JCR-tracking aggregators converge on a figure of approximately 14.0 for the 2025 JCR data year (Clarivate’s June 2026 release), placing the journal in JCR Quartile 1, but CASRAI was not able to independently confirm this against jcr.clarivate.com (subscription-gated) or reach Cell Press’s own metrics page directly at the time of writing, so treat this as a cross-corroborated but secondary-source figure rather than a primary-verified one. Clarivate updates JCR every June; check jcr.clarivate.com or cell.com/cell-reports-medicine for the current, release-dated figure before citing a number in a formal context. Per DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment) and CoARA guidance, this journal-level figure should not be used as a proxy for the quality of any individual article published in the journal or the merit of its authors.

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· Last updated 3 Aug 2026

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Examples

Worked examples

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A clinical researcher checking Cell Reports Medicine's current 2-year JIF on jcr.clarivate.com before selecting a target journal for a translational-medicine manuscript, rather than relying on a single third-party aggregator that may reflect an older JCR release.
Is an instance
An editor explaining to authors that Cell Reports Medicine's JIF is calculated the same way as every other JCR-indexed title -- total citations in the JCR data year to the journal's prior-two-years' citable items, divided by that item count -- regardless of the journal's clinical/translational focus.

Counter-examples

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Treating Cell Reports Medicine's JIF as interchangeable with Cell Reports' JIF because both titles carry the Cell Press "Cell Reports" name -- they are separate JCR-indexed journals with separate editorial boards, separate scopes (Cell Reports Medicine is translational/clinical; Cell Reports is broad life-sciences), and separate, independently computed Impact Factor figures.
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Citing Cell Reports Medicine's CiteScore (a separate Elsevier/Scopus metric with a four-year citation window and a broader document set) as if it were the journal's Clarivate JIF -- the two metrics use different windows, denominators, and source organizations, and routinely diverge in value.

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