BMJ: impact and ranking
BMJ has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.74 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,944 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 410. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.74 #1,944 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 410 #184 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.2M #276 of 18,122
- Works
- 64k 19.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of BMJ?
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 BMJ: 4.74, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks BMJ #1,944 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 BMJ?
OpenAlex gives BMJ an h-index of 410: 410 of its papers have each been cited at least 410 times. That ranks #184 of 18,122 journals.
How much does BMJ publish?
OpenAlex records 64,465 works in BMJ from 1997 to 2026, cited 1,231,010 times in all, 19.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #276 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About BMJ
- ISSN-L
- 1756-1833
- In OpenAlex
- 1997 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list BMJ as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S4393917726
Journals ranked near BMJ
The journals with a page that stand just above and below BMJ on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,912 | BMC Bioinformatics | 4.78 | 306 |
| 1,922 | Epilepsia | 4.77 | 286 |
| 1,943 | Chemical Engineering Science | 4.74 | 297 |
| 1,951 | European Journal of Pharmacology | 4.73 | 276 |
| 1,972 | Journal of Lipid Research | 4.70 | 324 |
| 1,993 | Journal of Virology | 4.68 | 421 |
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.