Applied and Environmental Microbiology: impact and ranking
Applied and Environmental Microbiology has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.52 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,104 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 479. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.52 #2,104 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 479 #111 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3.1M #47 of 18,122
- Works
- 39k 80.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Applied and Environmental Microbiology?
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 Applied and Environmental Microbiology: 4.52, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Applied and Environmental Microbiology #2,104 of 18,122 journals, in the top 12%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Applied and Environmental Microbiology?
OpenAlex gives Applied and Environmental Microbiology an h-index of 479: 479 of its papers have each been cited at least 479 times. That ranks #111 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Applied and Environmental Microbiology publish?
OpenAlex records 38,656 works in Applied and Environmental Microbiology from 1865 to 2026, cited 3,113,794 times in all, 80.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #47 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0099-2240
- In OpenAlex
- 1865 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Applied and Environmental Microbiology as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Website
- aem.asm.org
- OpenAlex record
- S158228368
Journals ranked near Applied and Environmental Microbiology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Applied and Environmental Microbiology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,095 | Circulation Research | 4.53 | 505 |
| 2,096 | Communications of the ACM | 4.53 | 437 |
| 2,102 | Cancer | 4.52 | 473 |
| 2,118 | Physics Letters B | 4.50 | 447 |
| 2,126 | BMC Genomics | 4.49 | 255 |
| 2,151 | Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research | 4.47 | 301 |
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.