Chemical Geology: impact and ranking
Chemical Geology has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.36 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,423 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 312. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.36 #3,423 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 312 #460 of 18,122
- Citations
- 818k #485 of 18,122
- Works
- 14k 56.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Chemical Geology?
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 Geology: 3.36, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Chemical Geology #3,423 of 18,122 journals, in the top 19%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Chemical Geology?
OpenAlex gives Chemical Geology an h-index of 312: 312 of its papers have each been cited at least 312 times. That ranks #460 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Chemical Geology publish?
OpenAlex records 14,459 works in Chemical Geology from 1800 to 2026, cited 817,880 times in all, 56.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #485 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Chemical Geology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0009-2541
- In OpenAlex
- 1800 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Chemical Geology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,550.
- OpenAlex record
- S141585851
Journals ranked near Chemical Geology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Chemical Geology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,350 | Nanotechnology | 3.42 | 251 |
| 3,359 | PLoS ONE | 3.41 | 593 |
| 3,378 | Journal of Applied Physiology | 3.40 | 404 |
| 3,430 | Vaccine | 3.36 | 263 |
| 3,504 | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 3.31 | 735 |
| 3,625 | Psychopharmacology | 3.24 | 287 |
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.