Chemical Communications: impact and ranking
Chemical Communications has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.38 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,236 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 404. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.38 #2,236 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 404 #196 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3.2M #43 of 18,122
- Works
- 79k 41.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Chemical Communications?
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 Chemical Communications: 4.38, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Chemical Communications #2,236 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 Chemical Communications?
OpenAlex gives Chemical Communications an h-index of 404: 404 of its papers have each been cited at least 404 times. That ranks #196 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Chemical Communications publish?
OpenAlex records 79,117 works in Chemical Communications from 1965 to 2026, cited 3,239,929 times in all, 41.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #43 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Chemical Communications
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 1359-7345
- In OpenAlex
- 1965 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Chemical Communications as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.rsc.org/chemcomm
- OpenAlex record
- S152760256
Journals ranked near Chemical Communications
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Chemical Communications on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,207 | Journal of Marketing Research | 4.41 | 405 |
| 2,209 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 4.41 | 399 |
| 2,215 | Journal of Neurochemistry | 4.41 | 349 |
| 2,243 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 4.37 | 471 |
| 2,290 | Journal of Bacteriology | 4.32 | 394 |
| 2,294 | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 4.31 | 266 |
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.