British Journal of Cancer: impact and ranking
British Journal of Cancer has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.92 in OpenAlex, which ranks #898 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 345. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.92 #898 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 345 #333 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.5M #194 of 18,122
- Works
- 28k 54.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of British Journal of Cancer?
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 British Journal of Cancer: 6.92, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks British Journal of Cancer #898 of 18,122 journals, in the top 5%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of British Journal of Cancer?
OpenAlex gives British Journal of Cancer an h-index of 345: 345 of its papers have each been cited at least 345 times. That ranks #333 of 18,122 journals.
How much does British Journal of Cancer publish?
OpenAlex records 28,474 works in British Journal of Cancer from 1947 to 2026, cited 1,549,599 times in all, 54.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #194 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About British Journal of Cancer
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0007-0920
- In OpenAlex
- 1947 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list British Journal of Cancer as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$5,190.
- Website
- www.nature.com/bjc
- OpenAlex record
- S62966998
Journals ranked near British Journal of Cancer
The journals with a page that stand just above and below British Journal of Cancer on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 876 | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 6.99 | 424 |
| 878 | Energy & Fuels | 6.98 | 260 |
| 883 | Academy of Management Journal | 6.96 | 568 |
| 901 | Talanta | 6.91 | 221 |
| 905 | International Journal of Pharmaceutics | 6.90 | 302 |
| 920 | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | 6.84 | 330 |
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.