Blood: impact and ranking
Blood has a 2-year mean citedness of 1.61 in OpenAlex, which ranks #7,689 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 635. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.61 #7,689 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 635 #32 of 18,122
- Citations
- 5.4M #20 of 18,122
- Works
- 184k 29.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Blood?
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 Blood: 1.61, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Blood #7,689 of 18,122 journals, in the top 42%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Blood?
OpenAlex gives Blood an h-index of 635: 635 of its papers have each been cited at least 635 times. That ranks #32 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Blood publish?
OpenAlex records 183,669 works in Blood from 1842 to 2026, cited 5,413,807 times in all, 29.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #20 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Blood
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0006-4971
- In OpenAlex
- 1842 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Blood as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$5,500.
- OpenAlex record
- S200071133
Journals ranked near Blood
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Blood on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7,323 | Technometrics | 1.73 | 494 |
| 7,482 | Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 1.68 | 293 |
| 7,591 | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | 1.64 | 331 |
| 7,731 | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | 1.60 | 600 |
| 7,844 | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 1.57 | 370 |
| 7,870 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | 1.56 | 227 |
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.