Development: impact and ranking
Development has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.71 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,979 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 468. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.71 #2,979 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 468 #121 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.9M #131 of 18,122
- Works
- 21k 93.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Development?
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 Development: 3.71, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Development #2,979 of 18,122 journals, in the top 16%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Development?
OpenAlex gives Development an h-index of 468: 468 of its papers have each been cited at least 468 times. That ranks #121 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Development publish?
OpenAlex records 20,739 works in Development from 1953 to 2026, cited 1,933,189 times in all, 93.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #131 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Development
- Publisher
- The Company of Biologists
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0950-1991
- In OpenAlex
- 1953 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Development as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- dev.biologists.org
- OpenAlex record
- S86558740
Journals ranked near Development
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Development on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,903 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 3.78 | 320 |
| 2,916 | Frontiers in Psychology | 3.76 | 310 |
| 2,948 | Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids | 3.73 | 241 |
| 2,986 | Molecular Biology of the Cell | 3.71 | 296 |
| 3,001 | American Psychologist | 3.69 | 482 |
| 3,027 | Forest Ecology and Management | 3.66 | 268 |
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.