European Journal of Cancer: impact and ranking
European Journal of Cancer has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.02 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,001 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 298. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.02 #4,001 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 298 #533 of 18,122
- Citations
- 845k #459 of 18,122
- Works
- 42k 20.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of European Journal of Cancer?
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 European Journal of Cancer: 3.02, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks European Journal of Cancer #4,001 of 18,122 journals, in the top 22%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of European Journal of Cancer?
OpenAlex gives European Journal of Cancer an h-index of 298: 298 of its papers have each been cited at least 298 times. That ranks #533 of 18,122 journals.
How much does European Journal of Cancer publish?
OpenAlex records 42,088 works in European Journal of Cancer from 1968 to 2026, cited 844,767 times in all, 20.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #459 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About European Journal of Cancer
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0959-8049
- In OpenAlex
- 1968 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list European Journal of Cancer as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,270.
- OpenAlex record
- S16731738
Journals ranked near European Journal of Cancer
The journals with a page that stand just above and below European Journal of Cancer on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,887 | Geophysical Journal International | 3.09 | 293 |
| 3,935 | Journal of Nutrition | 3.06 | 372 |
| 3,983 | Physics Letters A | 3.03 | 269 |
| 4,027 | American Heart Journal | 3.00 | 297 |
| 4,029 | Physical Review A | 3.00 | 457 |
| 4,030 | Neuroscience | 3.00 | 370 |
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.