CHEST Journal: impact and ranking
CHEST Journal has a 2-year mean citedness of 0.75 in OpenAlex, which ranks #11,033 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 407. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.75 #11,033 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 407 #190 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2M #124 of 18,122
- Works
- 85k 23.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of CHEST 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 CHEST Journal: 0.75, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks CHEST Journal #11,033 of 18,122 journals, in the top 61%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of CHEST Journal?
OpenAlex gives CHEST Journal an h-index of 407: 407 of its papers have each been cited at least 407 times. That ranks #190 of 18,122 journals.
How much does CHEST Journal publish?
OpenAlex records 84,610 works in CHEST Journal from 1935 to 2026, cited 1,959,471 times in all, 23.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #124 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About CHEST Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0012-3692
- In OpenAlex
- 1935 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list CHEST Journal as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,160.
- OpenAlex record
- S76900504
Journals ranked near CHEST Journal
The journals with a page that stand just above and below CHEST Journal on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,752 | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | 0.82 | 373 |
| 10,813 | International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics | 0.81 | 346 |
| 11,021 | Journal of Investigative Dermatology | 0.76 | 312 |
| 11,170 | SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series | 0.72 | 209 |
| 11,171 | Gastroenterology | 0.72 | 585 |
| 11,301 | Physics Today | 0.70 | 461 |
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.