Cancers: impact and ranking
Cancers has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.38 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,536 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 220. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.38 #1,536 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 220 #1,165 of 18,122
- Citations
- 825k #475 of 18,122
- Works
- 38k 21.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Cancers?
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 Cancers: 5.38, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Cancers #1,536 of 18,122 journals, in the top 8%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Cancers?
OpenAlex gives Cancers an h-index of 220: 220 of its papers have each been cited at least 220 times. That ranks #1,165 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Cancers publish?
OpenAlex records 37,688 works in Cancers from 1887 to 2026, cited 824,747 times in all, 21.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #475 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Cancers
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Country
- Switzerland
- ISSN-L
- 2072-6694
- In OpenAlex
- 1887 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Cancers as fully open access. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,499.
- Website
- www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers
- OpenAlex record
- S168415115
Journals ranked near Cancers
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Cancers on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,506 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 5.45 | 500 |
| 1,521 | Journal of High Energy Physics | 5.41 | 376 |
| 1,525 | Neurocomputing | 5.39 | 258 |
| 1,550 | Annals of Neurology | 5.36 | 437 |
| 1,586 | Energies | 5.30 | 231 |
| 1,604 | Remote Sensing | 5.25 | 275 |
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.