Applied Physics Letters: impact and ranking
Applied Physics Letters has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.05 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,566 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 562. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.05 #2,566 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 562 #57 of 18,122
- Citations
- 6.2M #18 of 18,122
- Works
- 142k 43.3 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Applied Physics Letters?
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 Physics Letters: 4.05, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Applied Physics Letters #2,566 of 18,122 journals, in the top 14%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Applied Physics Letters?
OpenAlex gives Applied Physics Letters an h-index of 562: 562 of its papers have each been cited at least 562 times. That ranks #57 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Applied Physics Letters publish?
OpenAlex records 142,412 works in Applied Physics Letters from 1962 to 2026, cited 6,160,047 times in all, 43.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #18 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Applied Physics Letters
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0003-6951
- In OpenAlex
- 1962 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Applied Physics Letters as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- apl.aip.org
- OpenAlex record
- S105243760
Journals ranked near Applied Physics Letters
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Applied Physics Letters on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,504 | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | 4.10 | 369 |
| 2,507 | Geology | 4.10 | 325 |
| 2,517 | Journal of Food Science | 4.09 | 252 |
| 2,591 | Physical review. B./Physical review. B | 4.03 | 220 |
| 2,643 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry C | 3.99 | 372 |
| 2,650 | Infection and Immunity | 3.98 | 331 |
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.