American Journal of Physics: impact and ranking
American Journal of Physics has a 2-year mean citedness of 0.90 in OpenAlex, which ranks #10,407 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 315. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.90 #10,407 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 315 #451 of 18,122
- Citations
- 834k #468 of 18,122
- Works
- 26k 31.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of American Journal of Physics?
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 Physics: 0.90, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks American Journal of Physics #10,407 of 18,122 journals, in the top 57%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of American Journal of Physics?
OpenAlex gives American Journal of Physics an h-index of 315: 315 of its papers have each been cited at least 315 times. That ranks #451 of 18,122 journals.
How much does American Journal of Physics publish?
OpenAlex records 26,227 works in American Journal of Physics from 1901 to 2026, cited 834,180 times in all, 31.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #468 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About American Journal of Physics
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0002-9505
- In OpenAlex
- 1901 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list American Journal of Physics as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- ajp.aapt.org
- OpenAlex record
- S38866342
Journals ranked near American Journal of Physics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below American Journal of Physics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9,940 | Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | 1.00 | 325 |
| 10,124 | Clinical Chemistry | 0.96 | 323 |
| 10,233 | Transplantation | 0.94 | 277 |
| 10,681 | Journal of Animal Science | 0.84 | 267 |
| 10,752 | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | 0.82 | 373 |
| 10,813 | International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics | 0.81 | 346 |
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.