Journal of Applied Physics: impact and ranking
Journal of Applied Physics has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.21 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,682 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 531. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.21 #3,682 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 531 #66 of 18,122
- Citations
- 5M #23 of 18,122
- Works
- 154k 32.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Applied Physics?
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 Journal of Applied Physics: 3.21, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Applied Physics #3,682 of 18,122 journals, in the top 20%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Applied Physics?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Applied Physics an h-index of 531: 531 of its papers have each been cited at least 531 times. That ranks #66 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Applied Physics publish?
OpenAlex records 153,571 works in Journal of Applied Physics from 1937 to 2026, cited 5,037,470 times in all, 32.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #23 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Applied Physics
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0021-8979
- In OpenAlex
- 1937 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Applied Physics as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,500.
- OpenAlex record
- S187991544
Journals ranked near Journal of Applied Physics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Applied Physics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,642 | Human Molecular Genetics | 3.23 | 357 |
| 3,667 | European Heart Journal | 3.22 | 456 |
| 3,677 | Phytochemistry | 3.21 | 285 |
| 3,721 | American Journal of Epidemiology | 3.19 | 416 |
| 3,767 | Journal of neurosurgery | 3.16 | 358 |
| 3,780 | Gene | 3.15 | 301 |
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.