Emerging infectious diseases: impact and ranking
Emerging infectious diseases has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.21 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,132 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 326. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.21 #1,132 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 326 #392 of 18,122
- Citations
- 849k #454 of 18,122
- Works
- 15k 57.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Emerging infectious diseases?
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 Emerging infectious diseases: 6.21, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Emerging infectious diseases #1,132 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 Emerging infectious diseases?
OpenAlex gives Emerging infectious diseases an h-index of 326: 326 of its papers have each been cited at least 326 times. That ranks #392 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Emerging infectious diseases publish?
OpenAlex records 14,806 works in Emerging infectious diseases from 1935 to 2026, cited 849,466 times in all, 57.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #454 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Emerging infectious diseases
- Publisher
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1080-6040
- In OpenAlex
- 1935 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Emerging infectious diseases as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- OpenAlex record
- S189281586
Journals ranked near Emerging infectious diseases
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Emerging infectious diseases on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,089 | Journal of Experimental Botany | 6.32 | 372 |
| 1,104 | Journal of Business Ethics | 6.27 | 378 |
| 1,117 | PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | 6.24 | 472 |
| 1,142 | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | 6.18 | 368 |
| 1,143 | European Journal of Operational Research | 6.18 | 411 |
| 1,147 | Current Biology | 6.18 | 453 |
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.