Journal of Bacteriology: impact and ranking
Journal of Bacteriology has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.32 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,290 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 394. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.32 #2,290 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 394 #219 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3M #53 of 18,122
- Works
- 55k 54.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Bacteriology?
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 Bacteriology: 4.32, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Bacteriology #2,290 of 18,122 journals, in the top 13%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Bacteriology?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Bacteriology an h-index of 394: 394 of its papers have each been cited at least 394 times. That ranks #219 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Bacteriology publish?
OpenAlex records 55,284 works in Journal of Bacteriology from 1883 to 2026, cited 2,983,318 times in all, 54.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #53 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Bacteriology
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0021-9193
- In OpenAlex
- 1883 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Journal of Bacteriology as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Website
- jb.asm.org
- OpenAlex record
- S133274750
Journals ranked near Journal of Bacteriology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Bacteriology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,215 | Journal of Neurochemistry | 4.41 | 349 |
| 2,236 | Chemical Communications | 4.38 | 404 |
| 2,243 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 4.37 | 471 |
| 2,294 | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 4.31 | 266 |
| 2,323 | Journal of Neuroscience | 4.29 | 651 |
| 2,349 | Journal of Chromatography A | 4.26 | 319 |
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.