Cancer: impact and ranking
Cancer has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.52 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,102 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 473. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.52 #2,102 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 473 #115 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3.1M #48 of 18,122
- Works
- 51k 60.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor 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 Cancer: 4.52, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Cancer #2,102 of 18,122 journals, in the top 12%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Cancer?
OpenAlex gives Cancer an h-index of 473: 473 of its papers have each been cited at least 473 times. That ranks #115 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Cancer publish?
OpenAlex records 51,339 works in Cancer from 1875 to 2026, cited 3,107,028 times in all, 60.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #48 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Cancer
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0008-543X
- In OpenAlex
- 1875 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Cancer as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,790.
- OpenAlex record
- S126033908
Journals ranked near Cancer
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Cancer on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,086 | JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 4.55 | 489 |
| 2,095 | Circulation Research | 4.53 | 505 |
| 2,096 | Communications of the ACM | 4.53 | 437 |
| 2,104 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 4.52 | 479 |
| 2,118 | Physics Letters B | 4.50 | 447 |
| 2,126 | BMC Genomics | 4.49 | 255 |
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.