Applied Sciences: impact and ranking
Applied Sciences has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.16 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,458 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 228. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.16 #2,458 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 228 #1,067 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.2M #291 of 18,122
- Works
- 94k 12.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Applied Sciences?
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 Sciences: 4.16, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Applied Sciences #2,458 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 Sciences?
OpenAlex gives Applied Sciences an h-index of 228: 228 of its papers have each been cited at least 228 times. That ranks #1,067 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Applied Sciences publish?
OpenAlex records 93,624 works in Applied Sciences from 2011 to 2026, cited 1,184,929 times in all, 12.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #291 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Applied Sciences
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Country
- Switzerland
- ISSN-L
- 2076-3417
- In OpenAlex
- 2011 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Applied Sciences as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$2,896.
- Website
- www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci
- OpenAlex record
- S4210205812
Journals ranked near Applied Sciences
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Applied Sciences on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,423 | The Economic Journal | 4.19 | 435 |
| 2,424 | Physics of Fluids | 4.19 | 248 |
| 2,425 | Journal of Computational Physics | 4.19 | 420 |
| 2,482 | Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 4.12 | 468 |
| 2,489 | Biochemical Journal | 4.12 | 401 |
| 2,492 | Journal of Materials Science | 4.11 | 309 |
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.