Cancer Cell: impact and ranking
Cancer Cell has a 2-year mean citedness of 34.8 in OpenAlex, which ranks #16 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 484. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 34.8 #16 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 484 #102 of 18,122
- Citations
- 898k #420 of 18,122
- Works
- 4.3k 209.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Cancer Cell?
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 Cell: 34.8, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Cancer Cell #16 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Cancer Cell?
OpenAlex gives Cancer Cell an h-index of 484: 484 of its papers have each been cited at least 484 times. That ranks #102 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Cancer Cell publish?
OpenAlex records 4,277 works in Cancer Cell from 1983 to 2026, cited 897,759 times in all, 209.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #420 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Cancer Cell
- Publisher
- Cell Press
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 1535-6108
- In OpenAlex
- 1983 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Cancer Cell as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$10,400.
- OpenAlex record
- S25671836
Journals ranked near Cancer Cell
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Cancer Cell on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Cell | 41.4 | 1,217 |
| 13 | Reviews of Modern Physics | 35.2 | 618 |
| 15 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 35.0 | 486 |
| 20 | Nature Medicine | 32.8 | 762 |
| 24 | New England Journal of Medicine | 32.4 | 1,503 |
| 25 | Energy & Environmental Science | 32.0 | 523 |
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.