Chemical Engineering Journal: impact and ranking
Chemical Engineering Journal has a 2-year mean citedness of 11.4 in OpenAlex, which ranks #287 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 391. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 11.4 #287 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 391 #225 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3.5M #36 of 18,122
- Works
- 81k 43.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Chemical Engineering Journal?
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 Engineering Journal: 11.4, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Chemical Engineering Journal #287 of 18,122 journals, in the top 2%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Chemical Engineering Journal?
OpenAlex gives Chemical Engineering Journal an h-index of 391: 391 of its papers have each been cited at least 391 times. That ranks #225 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Chemical Engineering Journal publish?
OpenAlex records 80,646 works in Chemical Engineering Journal from 1976 to 2026, cited 3,479,393 times in all, 43.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #36 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Chemical Engineering Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Switzerland
- ISSN-L
- 1385-8947
- In OpenAlex
- 1976 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Chemical Engineering Journal as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,830.
- OpenAlex record
- S149937609
Journals ranked near Chemical Engineering Journal
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Chemical Engineering Journal on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 252 | Carbon | 12.0 | 389 |
| 265 | Remote Sensing of Environment | 11.8 | 456 |
| 284 | Environmental Science & Technology | 11.4 | 591 |
| 288 | Psychological Bulletin | 11.4 | 648 |
| 293 | Journal of Controlled Release | 11.3 | 375 |
| 294 | Journal of Colloid and Interface Science | 11.3 | 367 |
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.