Biomaterials: impact and ranking
Biomaterials has a 2-year mean citedness of 12.3 in OpenAlex, which ranks #241 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 493. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 12.3 #241 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 493 #95 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.3M #89 of 18,122
- Works
- 23k 100.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Biomaterials?
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 Biomaterials: 12.3, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Biomaterials #241 of 18,122 journals, in the top 1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Biomaterials?
OpenAlex gives Biomaterials an h-index of 493: 493 of its papers have each been cited at least 493 times. That ranks #95 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Biomaterials publish?
OpenAlex records 22,776 works in Biomaterials from 1875 to 2026, cited 2,293,695 times in all, 100.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #89 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Biomaterials
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0142-9612
- In OpenAlex
- 1875 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Biomaterials as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,640.
- OpenAlex record
- S163807576
Journals ranked near Biomaterials
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Biomaterials on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 228 | Energy Conversion and Management | 12.5 | 315 |
| 232 | The Lancet Oncology | 12.4 | 521 |
| 238 | Computers in Human Behavior | 12.3 | 355 |
| 244 | The Science of The Total Environment | 12.2 | 492 |
| 252 | Carbon | 12.0 | 389 |
| 265 | Remote Sensing of Environment | 11.8 | 456 |
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.