Biochemical Journal: impact and ranking
Biochemical Journal has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.12 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,489 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 401. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.12 #2,489 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 401 #200 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2M #119 of 18,122
- Works
- 36k 56.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Biochemical Journal?
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 Biochemical Journal: 4.12, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Biochemical Journal #2,489 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 Biochemical Journal?
OpenAlex gives Biochemical Journal an h-index of 401: 401 of its papers have each been cited at least 401 times. That ranks #200 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Biochemical Journal publish?
OpenAlex records 35,594 works in Biochemical Journal from 1929 to 2026, cited 1,994,456 times in all, 56.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #119 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Biochemical Journal
- Publisher
- Portland Press
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0264-6021
- In OpenAlex
- 1929 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Biochemical Journal as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.biochemj.org
- OpenAlex record
- S44425019
Journals ranked near Biochemical Journal
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Biochemical Journal on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,425 | Journal of Computational Physics | 4.19 | 420 |
| 2,458 | Applied Sciences | 4.16 | 228 |
| 2,482 | Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 4.12 | 468 |
| 2,492 | Journal of Materials Science | 4.11 | 309 |
| 2,497 | Endocrinology | 4.11 | 374 |
| 2,504 | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | 4.10 | 369 |
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.