Anesthesiology: impact and ranking
Anesthesiology has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.75 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,568 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 368. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.75 #4,568 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 368 #284 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.3M #255 of 18,122
- Works
- 58k 22.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Anesthesiology?
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 Anesthesiology: 2.75, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Anesthesiology #4,568 of 18,122 journals, in the top 25%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Anesthesiology?
OpenAlex gives Anesthesiology an h-index of 368: 368 of its papers have each been cited at least 368 times. That ranks #284 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Anesthesiology publish?
OpenAlex records 57,912 works in Anesthesiology from 1882 to 2026, cited 1,283,936 times in all, 22.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #255 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Anesthesiology
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0003-3022
- In OpenAlex
- 1882 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Anesthesiology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S124035732
Journals ranked near Anesthesiology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Anesthesiology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,534 | Evolution | 2.76 | 362 |
| 4,535 | British Journal of Haematology | 2.76 | 265 |
| 4,550 | Materials Letters | 2.76 | 193 |
| 4,601 | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 2.73 | 393 |
| 4,761 | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2.65 | 410 |
| 4,778 | Journal of Climate | 2.65 | 411 |
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.