Journal of Cell Science: impact and ranking
Journal of Cell Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.53 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,214 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 385. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.53 #3,214 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 385 #238 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.4M #221 of 18,122
- Works
- 24k 58.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Cell Science?
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 Cell Science: 3.53, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Cell Science #3,214 of 18,122 journals, in the top 18%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Cell Science?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Cell Science an h-index of 385: 385 of its papers have each been cited at least 385 times. That ranks #238 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Cell Science publish?
OpenAlex records 24,218 works in Journal of Cell Science from 1817 to 2026, cited 1,415,427 times in all, 58.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #221 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Cell Science
- Publisher
- The Company of Biologists
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0021-9533
- In OpenAlex
- 1817 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Cell Science as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- jcs.biologists.org
- OpenAlex record
- S5677253
Journals ranked near Journal of Cell Science
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Cell Science on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,172 | Optics Express | 3.55 | 343 |
| 3,176 | Analytical Biochemistry | 3.55 | 406 |
| 3,209 | Brain Research | 3.53 | 399 |
| 3,223 | Optics Letters | 3.52 | 348 |
| 3,253 | The FASEB Journal | 3.49 | 401 |
| 3,279 | Experimental Cell Research | 3.48 | 285 |
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.