Is Cell Reports a predatory journal? - (CR) The Cell Reports Portfolio includes gold open-access journals that span life, medical, and physical sciences. Its mission is to make cutting-edge research and methodologies across disciplines available to a wide readership. Cell Reports publishes high-quality research across the life sciences. The primary criterion for publication in Cell Reports is new biological insight. We have three primary article types. Reports are shorter, single-point articles; research articles are the longer format for work with deeper mechanistic insight; and resources highlight significant technical advances or major informational datasets that are more...