eLife: impact and ranking
eLife has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.03 in OpenAlex, which ranks #6,319 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 310. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.03 #6,319 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 310 #468 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #346 of 18,122
- Works
- 33k 32.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of eLife?
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 eLife: 2.03, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks eLife #6,319 of 18,122 journals, in the top 35%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of eLife?
OpenAlex gives eLife an h-index of 310: 310 of its papers have each been cited at least 310 times. That ranks #468 of 18,122 journals.
How much does eLife publish?
OpenAlex records 32,568 works in eLife from 1883 to 2026, cited 1,065,503 times in all, 32.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #346 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About eLife
- Publisher
- eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 2050-084X
- In OpenAlex
- 1883 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists eLife as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$2,500.
- Website
- elifesciences.org
- OpenAlex record
- S1336409049
Journals ranked near eLife
The journals with a page that stand just above and below eLife on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,146 | Marine Ecology Progress Series | 2.09 | 295 |
| 6,264 | The Journal of Comparative Neurology | 2.05 | 431 |
| 6,303 | Medicine | 2.04 | 285 |
| 6,381 | The American Journal of Surgery | 2.02 | 253 |
| 6,389 | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 2.01 | 632 |
| 6,538 | Developmental Biology | 1.96 | 335 |
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.