Chemical Science: impact and ranking
Chemical Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 9.32 in OpenAlex, which ranks #448 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 279. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 9.32 #448 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 279 #635 of 18,122
- Citations
- 900k #419 of 18,122
- Works
- 21k 41.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Chemical Science?
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 Science: 9.32, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Chemical Science #448 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 Science?
OpenAlex gives Chemical Science an h-index of 279: 279 of its papers have each been cited at least 279 times. That ranks #635 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Chemical Science publish?
OpenAlex records 21,498 works in Chemical Science from 1873 to 2026, cited 900,208 times in all, 41.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #419 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Chemical Science
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 2041-6520
- In OpenAlex
- 1873 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Chemical Science as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Website
- www.rsc.org/chemicalscience
- OpenAlex record
- S184645833
Journals ranked near Chemical Science
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Chemical Science on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 427 | JAMA | 9.53 | 1,011 |
| 434 | Green Chemistry | 9.45 | 323 |
| 445 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 9.34 | 324 |
| 450 | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 9.28 | 319 |
| 453 | Nano Letters | 9.26 | 603 |
| 456 | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules | 9.23 | 271 |
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.