Cell Research is published monthly by Nature Publishing Group in partnership with Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); and is affiliated with the Chinese Society for Cell Biology. Cell Research is a prestigious international journal in life sciences with a current Impact Factor of 15.606 (Clarivate Analytics, 2017). The journal is indexed/abstracted in Index Medicus/Medline/PubMed, Science Citation Index, Current Contents-life Sciences, SciSearch and ISI Web of Science, Chemistry Abstracts, BIOSIS, VINITI, Chinainfo (CD&Web), CJFD (CD&Web), and CSCD.