BMJ Open: impact and ranking
BMJ Open has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.62 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,836 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 241. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.62 #4,836 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 241 #922 of 18,122
- Citations
- 913k #415 of 18,122
- Works
- 46k 19.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of BMJ Open?
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 Open: 2.62, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks BMJ Open #4,836 of 18,122 journals, in the top 27%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of BMJ Open?
OpenAlex gives BMJ Open an h-index of 241: 241 of its papers have each been cited at least 241 times. That ranks #922 of 18,122 journals.
How much does BMJ Open publish?
OpenAlex records 45,899 works in BMJ Open from 1814 to 2026, cited 913,291 times in all, 19.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #415 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About BMJ Open
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 2044-6055
- In OpenAlex
- 1814 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists BMJ Open as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$1,839.
- Website
- bmjopen.bmj.com
- OpenAlex record
- S79054089
Journals ranked near BMJ Open
The journals with a page that stand just above and below BMJ Open on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,761 | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2.65 | 410 |
| 4,778 | Journal of Climate | 2.65 | 411 |
| 4,783 | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2.64 | 345 |
| 4,849 | The Journal of Pediatrics | 2.61 | 330 |
| 4,853 | Circulation | 2.61 | 847 |
| 4,899 | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes | 2.59 | 302 |
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.