Speed
46 days from submission to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
42 days to first decision for all manuscripts
107 days from submission to acceptance
30 days from acceptance to publication

Stem Cell Research & Therapy is the major forum for translational research into stem cell therapies. An international peer-reviewed journal, it publishes high-quality open access research articles with a special emphasis on basic, translational and clinical research into stem cell therapeutics and regenerative therapies, including animal models and clinical trials. The journal also provides reviews, viewpoints, commentaries, reports and methods.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to: 
Adult stem cells
Embryonic stem cells
Induced pluripotent stem cells
Cancer stem cells
Stem cell differentiation, proliferation and migration
Cell culture and manufacture
Stem cell therapy/transplantation
Tissue engineering
Immunology
Genomics/proteomics/metabolomics
Biophysics and mechanobiology
Ethical, legal and social aspects
Technologies
Animal models
Clinical studies

Research
Commentary
Letter
Method
Review
Short report
Viewpoint
Meeting report

Editors-in-Chief
Rocky S Tuan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Timothy O'Brien, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Associate Editors
Karen English, Maynooth University, Ireland
Oscar Lee, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Rebecca Lim, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Guanghui Liu, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Gianvito Martino, San Raffaele Hospital, Italy
Sabyasachi Sen, The George Washington University, USA
Yufang Shi, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China
Nathan Staff, Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA
Marc Turner, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, UK
Akihiro Umezawa, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan
Ming Hao Zheng, University of Western Australia, Australia
Editorial Board 
Jozef Bartunek, OLV Hospital, Belgium
Robin Franklin, University of Cambridge, UK
Farshid Guilak, Washington University, USA
Anthony Hollander, University of Liverpool, UK
George Huang, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Ying Jin, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS, China
Christian Jorgensen, University of Montpellier, France
Jeffrey Karp, Harvard Medical School, USA
Moustapha Kassem, Odense University Hospital, Denmark
Simon Koblar, University of Adelaide, Australia
Michael Laflamme, University of Toronto, Canada
Jeremy Mao, Columbia University, USA
Huck Hui Ng, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Ulrich Nöth, University of Würzburg, Germany
Bruno Peault, University of Edinburgh, UK
Duanqing Pei, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, China
Murugan Ramalingam, Centre for Stem Cell Research, India
Mahendra Rao, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, India
Nadia Rosenthal, The Jackson Laboratory, USA
David Scadden, Harvard Medical School, USA
Ichiro Sekiya, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Songtao Shi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Azim Surani, University of Cambridge, UK
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University, USA