BMC Public Health: impact and ranking
BMC Public Health has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.79 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,906 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 288. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.79 #1,906 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 288 #575 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #314 of 18,122
- Works
- 36k 31.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of BMC Public Health?
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 BMC Public Health: 4.79, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks BMC Public Health #1,906 of 18,122 journals, in the top 11%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of BMC Public Health?
OpenAlex gives BMC Public Health an h-index of 288: 288 of its papers have each been cited at least 288 times. That ranks #575 of 18,122 journals.
How much does BMC Public Health publish?
OpenAlex records 35,931 works in BMC Public Health from 1858 to 2026, cited 1,120,240 times in all, 31.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #314 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About BMC Public Health
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 1471-2458
- In OpenAlex
- 1858 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists BMC Public Health as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,290.
- OpenAlex record
- S200437886
Journals ranked near BMC Public Health
The journals with a page that stand just above and below BMC Public Health on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,861 | Genes & Development | 4.86 | 592 |
| 1,872 | Materials | 4.85 | 248 |
| 1,892 | Geophysical Research Letters | 4.81 | 418 |
| 1,909 | Planta | 4.79 | 262 |
| 1,912 | BMC Bioinformatics | 4.78 | 306 |
| 1,922 | Epilepsia | 4.77 | 286 |
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.