Applied Surface Science: impact and ranking
Applied Surface Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.57 in OpenAlex, which ranks #994 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 277. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.57 #994 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 277 #650 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.1M #111 of 18,122
- Works
- 70k 29.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Applied Surface Science?
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 Surface Science: 6.57, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Applied Surface Science #994 of 18,122 journals, in the top 5%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Applied Surface Science?
OpenAlex gives Applied Surface Science an h-index of 277: 277 of its papers have each been cited at least 277 times. That ranks #650 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Applied Surface Science publish?
OpenAlex records 69,717 works in Applied Surface Science from 1980 to 2026, cited 2,079,247 times in all, 29.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #111 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Applied Surface Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0169-4332
- In OpenAlex
- 1980 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Applied Surface Science as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,930.
- OpenAlex record
- S42323631
Journals ranked near Applied Surface Science
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Applied Surface Science on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 956 | Oncogene | 6.72 | 423 |
| 965 | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | 6.67 | 418 |
| 993 | Life Sciences | 6.58 | 287 |
| 1,001 | Radiology | 6.55 | 431 |
| 1,030 | Molecules | 6.47 | 346 |
| 1,035 | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 6.46 | 266 |
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.