Current Biology: impact and ranking
Current Biology has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.18 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,147 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 453. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.18 #1,147 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 453 #138 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.8M #153 of 18,122
- Works
- 26k 68.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Current Biology?
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 Current Biology: 6.18, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Current Biology #1,147 of 18,122 journals, in the top 6%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Current Biology?
OpenAlex gives Current Biology an h-index of 453: 453 of its papers have each been cited at least 453 times. That ranks #138 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Current Biology publish?
OpenAlex records 25,784 works in Current Biology from 1991 to 2026, cited 1,773,410 times in all, 68.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #153 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Current Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0960-9822
- In OpenAlex
- 1991 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Current Biology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$7,030.
- OpenAlex record
- S128425624
Journals ranked near Current Biology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Current Biology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,132 | Emerging infectious diseases | 6.21 | 326 |
| 1,142 | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | 6.18 | 368 |
| 1,143 | European Journal of Operational Research | 6.18 | 411 |
| 1,156 | Macromolecules | 6.15 | 417 |
| 1,167 | Atmospheric chemistry and physics | 6.13 | 330 |
| 1,170 | Journal of Catalysis | 6.13 | 336 |
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.