Circulation: impact and ranking
Circulation has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.61 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,853 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 847. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.61 #4,853 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 847 #12 of 18,122
- Citations
- 6.3M #17 of 18,122
- Works
- 128k 48.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Circulation?
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 Circulation: 2.61, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Circulation #4,853 of 18,122 journals, in the top 27%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Circulation?
OpenAlex gives Circulation an h-index of 847: 847 of its papers have each been cited at least 847 times. That ranks #12 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Circulation publish?
OpenAlex records 128,167 works in Circulation from 1800 to 2026, cited 6,254,266 times in all, 48.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #17 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Circulation
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0009-7322
- In OpenAlex
- 1800 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Circulation as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- circ.ahajournals.org
- OpenAlex record
- S116251202
Journals ranked near Circulation
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Circulation on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,783 | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2.64 | 345 |
| 4,836 | BMJ Open | 2.62 | 241 |
| 4,849 | The Journal of Pediatrics | 2.61 | 330 |
| 4,899 | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes | 2.59 | 302 |
| 4,954 | Journal of Hepatology | 2.57 | 382 |
| 5,003 | Surface Science | 2.55 | 270 |
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.