Animal Behaviour: impact and ranking
Animal Behaviour has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.19 in OpenAlex, which ranks #5,887 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 298. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.19 #5,887 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 298 #533 of 18,122
- Citations
- 923k #408 of 18,122
- Works
- 17k 53.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Animal Behaviour?
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 Animal Behaviour: 2.19, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Animal Behaviour #5,887 of 18,122 journals, in the top 32%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Animal Behaviour?
OpenAlex gives Animal Behaviour an h-index of 298: 298 of its papers have each been cited at least 298 times. That ranks #533 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Animal Behaviour publish?
OpenAlex records 17,263 works in Animal Behaviour from 1855 to 2026, cited 922,507 times in all, 53.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #408 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Animal Behaviour
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0003-3472
- In OpenAlex
- 1855 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Animal Behaviour as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$2,740.
- OpenAlex record
- S157690423
Journals ranked near Animal Behaviour
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Animal Behaviour on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5,651 | Organometallics | 2.28 | 212 |
| 5,778 | Oncotarget | 2.22 | 222 |
| 5,834 | Clinical Cancer Research | 2.21 | 418 |
| 5,923 | Tetrahedron | 2.17 | 307 |
| 5,972 | Stroke | 2.16 | 455 |
| 6,004 | American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | 2.15 | 382 |
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.