Cells (ISSN 2073-4409; CODEN: CELLC6) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal of cell biology, molecular biology, and biophysics. Cells is published monthly online by MDPI. The Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), Signal Transduction Society (STS) and Nordic Autophagy Society (NAS) are affiliated with Cells and their members receive discounts on the article processing charges.

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* 1. What are your research areas and interests?

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* 2. How many papers did you publish in 2020?

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* 3. How do you choose which journals to submit your manuscripts to?

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* 4. Do you prefer to publish papers in open access or non-open access journals？

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* 5. What are the important factors when it comes to choosing a journal in which to publish your papers? (1: least important, 5: most important; if certain factors are not important at all for you, please choose “N/A”)

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JCR Category Rank and IF
Image and Reputation
Time of Publication
The Article Processing Charge

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* 7. If you have published papers in Cells before, do you have any comments or suggestions about the way that the journal is run? (optional question)

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* 8. Do you have a plan to contribute a paper to Cells in 2021/2022?

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* 9. Are you interested in guest editing one special issue in Cells?

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* 10. Please provide your details (we will not disclose your information).

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* 11. 2021 is Cells’ 10th anniversary. We launched 10th-Anniversary Special Issues （https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cells/anniversary. If you or your colleagues would like to contribute, please contact the managing editor <dolly.wang@mdpi.com>. Many thanks for your time in completing this questionnaire.

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