American Journal of Public Health: impact and ranking
American Journal of Public Health has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.94 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,171 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
- 2.94 #4,171 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 421 #163 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.3M #245 of 18,122
- Works
- 30k 44.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of American Journal of Public Health?
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 Public Health: 2.94, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks American Journal of Public Health #4,171 of 18,122 journals, in the top 23%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of American Journal of Public Health?
OpenAlex gives American Journal of Public Health 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 American Journal of Public Health publish?
OpenAlex records 29,765 works in American Journal of Public Health from 1922 to 2025, cited 1,327,322 times in all, 44.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #245 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About American Journal of Public Health
- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0090-0036
- In OpenAlex
- 1922 to 2025
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list American Journal of Public Health as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.ajph.org
- OpenAlex record
- S168049282
Journals ranked near American Journal of Public Health
The journals with a page that stand just above and below American Journal of Public Health on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,112 | Anesthesia & Analgesia | 2.97 | 299 |
| 4,133 | FEBS Letters | 2.96 | 392 |
| 4,145 | Magnetic Resonance in Medicine | 2.95 | 325 |
| 4,212 | Journal of Physics D Applied Physics | 2.92 | 277 |
| 4,267 | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2.89 | 234 |
| 4,281 | Soil Science Society of America Journal | 2.88 | 316 |
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.