International Journal of Molecular Sciences: impact and ranking
International Journal of Molecular Sciences has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.99 in OpenAlex, which ranks #876 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 424. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.99 #876 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 424 #160 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3.2M #44 of 18,122
- Works
- 115k 28.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of International Journal of Molecular Sciences?
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 International Journal of Molecular Sciences: 6.99, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks International Journal of Molecular Sciences #876 of 18,122 journals, in the top 5%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of International Journal of Molecular Sciences?
OpenAlex gives International Journal of Molecular Sciences an h-index of 424: 424 of its papers have each been cited at least 424 times. That ranks #160 of 18,122 journals.
How much does International Journal of Molecular Sciences publish?
OpenAlex records 115,267 works in International Journal of Molecular Sciences from 1911 to 2026, cited 3,224,889 times in all, 28.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #44 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About International Journal of Molecular Sciences
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Country
- Switzerland
- ISSN-L
- 1422-0067
- In OpenAlex
- 1911 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists International Journal of Molecular Sciences as fully open access. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,499.
- Website
- www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms
- OpenAlex record
- S10623703
Journals ranked near International Journal of Molecular Sciences
The journals with a page that stand just above and below International Journal of Molecular Sciences on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 849 | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 7.12 | 331 |
| 859 | Journal of Political Economy | 7.06 | 519 |
| 867 | Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry | 7.02 | 337 |
| 878 | Energy & Fuels | 6.98 | 260 |
| 883 | Academy of Management Journal | 6.96 | 568 |
| 898 | British Journal of Cancer | 6.92 | 345 |
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.