Fuel: impact and ranking
Fuel has a 2-year mean citedness of 7.70 in OpenAlex, which ranks #697 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 312. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.70 #697 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 312 #460 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.7M #160 of 18,122
- Works
- 48k 36.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Fuel?
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 Fuel: 7.70, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Fuel #697 of 18,122 journals, in the top 4%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Fuel?
OpenAlex gives Fuel an h-index of 312: 312 of its papers have each been cited at least 312 times. That ranks #460 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Fuel publish?
OpenAlex records 47,725 works in Fuel from 1922 to 2026, cited 1,722,317 times in all, 36.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #160 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Fuel
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0016-2361
- In OpenAlex
- 1922 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Fuel as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,330.
- OpenAlex record
- S164770093
Journals ranked near Fuel
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Fuel on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 672 | Environmental Pollution | 7.80 | 385 |
| 678 | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 7.77 | 385 |
| 680 | Polymers | 7.76 | 237 |
| 704 | Journal of Hydrology | 7.63 | 360 |
| 728 | Management Science | 7.55 | 488 |
| 730 | Journal of Medicinal Chemistry | 7.55 | 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.