American Journal of Epidemiology: impact and ranking
American Journal of Epidemiology has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.19 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,721 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 416. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.19 #3,721 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 416 #176 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.4M #220 of 18,122
- Works
- 23k 60.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of American Journal of Epidemiology?
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 American Journal of Epidemiology: 3.19, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks American Journal of Epidemiology #3,721 of 18,122 journals, in the top 21%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of American Journal of Epidemiology?
OpenAlex gives American Journal of Epidemiology an h-index of 416: 416 of its papers have each been cited at least 416 times. That ranks #176 of 18,122 journals.
How much does American Journal of Epidemiology publish?
OpenAlex records 23,383 works in American Journal of Epidemiology from 1855 to 2026, cited 1,416,877 times in all, 60.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #220 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About American Journal of Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0002-9262
- In OpenAlex
- 1855 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list American Journal of Epidemiology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,856.
- Website
- aje.oxfordjournals.org
- OpenAlex record
- S170967050
Journals ranked near American Journal of Epidemiology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below American Journal of Epidemiology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,667 | European Heart Journal | 3.22 | 456 |
| 3,677 | Phytochemistry | 3.21 | 285 |
| 3,682 | Journal of Applied Physics | 3.21 | 531 |
| 3,767 | Journal of neurosurgery | 3.16 | 358 |
| 3,780 | Gene | 3.15 | 301 |
| 3,782 | Molecular Microbiology | 3.15 | 336 |
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.