Journal of Biological Chemistry: impact and ranking
Journal of Biological Chemistry has a 2-year mean citedness of 1.93 in OpenAlex, which ranks #6,653 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 780. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.93 #6,653 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 780 #13 of 18,122
- Citations
- 17.3M #4 of 18,122
- Works
- 214k 80.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Biological Chemistry?
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 Biological Chemistry: 1.93, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Biological Chemistry #6,653 of 18,122 journals, in the top 37%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Biological Chemistry?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Biological Chemistry an h-index of 780: 780 of its papers have each been cited at least 780 times. That ranks #13 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Biological Chemistry publish?
OpenAlex records 214,296 works in Journal of Biological Chemistry from 1905 to 2026, cited 17,291,912 times in all, 80.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #4 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0021-9258
- In OpenAlex
- 1905 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Journal of Biological Chemistry as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,430.
- OpenAlex record
- S140251998
Journals ranked near Journal of Biological Chemistry
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Biological Chemistry on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,389 | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 2.01 | 632 |
| 6,538 | Developmental Biology | 1.96 | 335 |
| 6,623 | Review of Scientific Instruments | 1.94 | 252 |
| 6,758 | The American Journal of Medicine | 1.89 | 386 |
| 6,811 | Journal of the Physical Society of Japan | 1.88 | 240 |
| 6,840 | The Laryngoscope | 1.87 | 239 |
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.