Frontiers in Microbiology: impact and ranking
Frontiers in Microbiology has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.64 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,407 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 343. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.64 #1,407 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 343 #339 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.5M #208 of 18,122
- Works
- 42k 35.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Frontiers in Microbiology?
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 Frontiers in Microbiology: 5.64, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Frontiers in Microbiology #1,407 of 18,122 journals, in the top 8%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Frontiers in Microbiology?
OpenAlex gives Frontiers in Microbiology an h-index of 343: 343 of its papers have each been cited at least 343 times. That ranks #339 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Frontiers in Microbiology publish?
OpenAlex records 42,174 works in Frontiers in Microbiology from 1920 to 2026, cited 1,491,454 times in all, 35.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #208 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Frontiers in Microbiology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media
- Country
- Switzerland
- ISSN-L
- 1664-302X
- In OpenAlex
- 1920 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Frontiers in Microbiology as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,801.
- OpenAlex record
- S2484704948
Journals ranked near Frontiers in Microbiology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Frontiers in Microbiology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,374 | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 5.71 | 332 |
| 1,392 | Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 5.67 | 305 |
| 1,406 | The American Journal of Sports Medicine | 5.65 | 361 |
| 1,408 | The Astrophysical Journal | 5.64 | 697 |
| 1,427 | Annals of Surgery | 5.59 | 453 |
| 1,434 | Journal of Sound and Vibration | 5.57 | 274 |
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.