Genes & Development: impact and ranking
Genes & Development has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.86 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,861 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 592. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.86 #1,861 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 592 #44 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.9M #129 of 18,122
- Works
- 8.8k 218.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Genes & Development?
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 Genes & Development: 4.86, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Genes & Development #1,861 of 18,122 journals, in the top 10%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Genes & Development?
OpenAlex gives Genes & Development an h-index of 592: 592 of its papers have each been cited at least 592 times. That ranks #44 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Genes & Development publish?
OpenAlex records 8,839 works in Genes & Development from 1913 to 2026, cited 1,934,205 times in all, 218.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #129 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Genes & Development
- Publisher
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0890-9369
- In OpenAlex
- 1913 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Genes & Development as fully open access.
- Website
- genesdev.cshlp.org
- OpenAlex record
- S168778273
Journals ranked near Genes & Development
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Genes & Development on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,810 | Pain | 4.93 | 399 |
| 1,817 | Langmuir | 4.92 | 426 |
| 1,849 | Organic Letters | 4.87 | 270 |
| 1,872 | Materials | 4.85 | 248 |
| 1,892 | Geophysical Research Letters | 4.81 | 418 |
| 1,906 | BMC Public Health | 4.79 | 288 |
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.