Genome biology: impact and ranking
Genome biology has a 2-year mean citedness of 10.2 in OpenAlex, which ranks #376 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 388. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 10.2 #376 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 388 #232 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #350 of 18,122
- Works
- 9.1k 116.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Genome biology?
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 Genome biology: 10.2, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Genome biology #376 of 18,122 journals, in the top 2%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Genome biology?
OpenAlex gives Genome biology an h-index of 388: 388 of its papers have each been cited at least 388 times. That ranks #232 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Genome biology publish?
OpenAlex records 9,062 works in Genome biology from 1946 to 2026, cited 1,057,286 times in all, 116.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #350 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Genome biology
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 1465-6906
- In OpenAlex
- 1946 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Genome biology as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$5,490.
- OpenAlex record
- S81160022
Journals ranked near Genome biology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Genome biology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 356 | Renewable Energy | 10.5 | 319 |
| 374 | Food Chemistry | 10.3 | 399 |
| 375 | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 10.2 | 340 |
| 383 | Construction and Building Materials | 10.1 | 353 |
| 384 | The Journal of Experimental Medicine | 10.1 | 651 |
| 386 | Journal of Environmental Management | 10.1 | 328 |
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.