Carbon: impact and ranking
Carbon has a 2-year mean citedness of 12.0 in OpenAlex, which ranks #252 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 389. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 12.0 #252 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 389 #230 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.5M #199 of 18,122
- Works
- 31k 49.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Carbon?
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 Carbon: 12.0, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Carbon #252 of 18,122 journals, in the top 1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Carbon?
OpenAlex gives Carbon an h-index of 389: 389 of its papers have each been cited at least 389 times. That ranks #230 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Carbon publish?
OpenAlex records 30,994 works in Carbon from 1951 to 2026, cited 1,537,676 times in all, 49.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #199 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Carbon
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0008-6223
- In OpenAlex
- 1951 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Carbon as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,830.
- OpenAlex record
- S188605413
Journals ranked near Carbon
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Carbon on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 238 | Computers in Human Behavior | 12.3 | 355 |
| 241 | Biomaterials | 12.3 | 493 |
| 244 | The Science of The Total Environment | 12.2 | 492 |
| 265 | Remote Sensing of Environment | 11.8 | 456 |
| 284 | Environmental Science & Technology | 11.4 | 591 |
| 287 | Chemical Engineering Journal | 11.4 | 391 |
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.