Acta Materialia: impact and ranking
Acta Materialia has a 2-year mean citedness of 10.8 in OpenAlex, which ranks #332 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 421. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 10.8 #332 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 421 #163 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.6M #176 of 18,122
- Works
- 22k 74.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Acta Materialia?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Acta Materialia: 10.8, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Acta Materialia #332 of 18,122 journals, in the top 2%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Acta Materialia?
OpenAlex gives Acta Materialia an h-index of 421: 421 of its papers have each been cited at least 421 times. That ranks #163 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Acta Materialia publish?
OpenAlex records 21,781 works in Acta Materialia from 1972 to 2026, cited 1,629,592 times in all, 74.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #176 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Acta Materialia
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 1359-6454
- In OpenAlex
- 1972 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Acta Materialia as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,700.
- OpenAlex record
- S64016596
Journals ranked near Acta Materialia
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Acta Materialia on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 322 | Journal of Business Research | 10.9 | 405 |
| 330 | The Plant Cell | 10.8 | 501 |
| 331 | Journal of Clinical Investigation | 10.8 | 706 |
| 335 | Chemosphere | 10.7 | 383 |
| 339 | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 10.7 | 428 |
| 346 | Desalination | 10.7 | 283 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.