Biophysical Journal: impact and ranking
Biophysical Journal has a 2-year mean citedness of 0.53 in OpenAlex, which ranks #12,194 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 383. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.53 #12,194 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 383 #245 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.7M #170 of 18,122
- Works
- 84k 19.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Biophysical 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 Biophysical Journal: 0.53, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Biophysical Journal #12,194 of 18,122 journals, in the top 67%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Biophysical Journal?
OpenAlex gives Biophysical Journal an h-index of 383: 383 of its papers have each been cited at least 383 times. That ranks #245 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Biophysical Journal publish?
OpenAlex records 84,058 works in Biophysical Journal from 1874 to 2026, cited 1,653,678 times in all, 19.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #170 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Biophysical Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0006-3495
- In OpenAlex
- 1874 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Biophysical Journal as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,000.
- OpenAlex record
- S98085912
Journals ranked near Biophysical Journal
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Biophysical Journal on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11,727 | Diabetes | 0.61 | 447 |
| 12,158 | British journal of surgery | 0.53 | 310 |
| 12,192 | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology | 0.53 | 371 |
| 12,318 | Journal of Physics Conference Series | 0.51 | 134 |
| 12,931 | The Journal of Urology | 0.41 | 373 |
| 13,031 | Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise | 0.39 | 361 |
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.