Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases: impact and ranking
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases has a 2-year mean citedness of 1.57 in OpenAlex, which ranks #7,844 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 370. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.57 #7,844 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 370 #277 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.2M #272 of 18,122
- Works
- 73k 16.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases?
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 Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases: 1.57, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases #7,844 of 18,122 journals, in the top 43%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases?
OpenAlex gives Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases an h-index of 370: 370 of its papers have each been cited at least 370 times. That ranks #277 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases publish?
OpenAlex records 73,072 works in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases from 1939 to 2026, cited 1,237,787 times in all, 16.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #272 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0003-4967
- In OpenAlex
- 1939 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,870.
- Website
- ard.bmj.com
- OpenAlex record
- S25650217
Journals ranked near Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7,591 | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | 1.64 | 331 |
| 7,689 | Blood | 1.61 | 635 |
| 7,731 | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | 1.60 | 600 |
| 7,870 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | 1.56 | 227 |
| 8,120 | Japanese Journal of Applied Physics | 1.49 | 240 |
| 8,143 | Biometrics | 1.49 | 404 |
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.