Desalination: impact and ranking
Desalination has a 2-year mean citedness of 10.7 in OpenAlex, which ranks #346 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 283. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 10.7 #346 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 283 #610 of 18,122
- Citations
- 902k #416 of 18,122
- Works
- 21k 42.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Desalination?
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 Desalination: 10.7, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Desalination #346 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 Desalination?
OpenAlex gives Desalination an h-index of 283: 283 of its papers have each been cited at least 283 times. That ranks #610 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Desalination publish?
OpenAlex records 21,160 works in Desalination from 1966 to 2026, cited 901,634 times in all, 42.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #416 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Desalination
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0011-9164
- In OpenAlex
- 1966 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Desalination as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,580.
- OpenAlex record
- S86512602
Journals ranked near Desalination
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Desalination on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 332 | Acta Materialia | 10.8 | 421 |
| 335 | Chemosphere | 10.7 | 383 |
| 339 | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 10.7 | 428 |
| 356 | Renewable Energy | 10.5 | 319 |
| 374 | Food Chemistry | 10.3 | 399 |
| 375 | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 10.2 | 340 |
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.