Communications of the ACM: impact and ranking
Communications of the ACM has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.53 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,096 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 437. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.53 #2,096 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 437 #149 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.3M #265 of 18,122
- Works
- 16k 78.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Communications of the ACM?
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 Communications of the ACM: 4.53, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Communications of the ACM #2,096 of 18,122 journals, in the top 12%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Communications of the ACM?
OpenAlex gives Communications of the ACM an h-index of 437: 437 of its papers have each been cited at least 437 times. That ranks #149 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Communications of the ACM publish?
OpenAlex records 16,152 works in Communications of the ACM from 1942 to 2026, cited 1,263,708 times in all, 78.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #265 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Communications of the ACM
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0001-0782
- In OpenAlex
- 1942 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Communications of the ACM as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- cacm.acm.org
- OpenAlex record
- S103482838
Journals ranked near Communications of the ACM
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Communications of the ACM on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,074 | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 4.56 | 365 |
| 2,086 | JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 4.55 | 489 |
| 2,095 | Circulation Research | 4.53 | 505 |
| 2,102 | Cancer | 4.52 | 473 |
| 2,104 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 4.52 | 479 |
| 2,118 | Physics Letters B | 4.50 | 447 |
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.