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Journal of Clinical Microbiology: impact and ranking

Journal of Clinical Microbiology has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.56 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,074 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 365. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.

2-year mean citedness
4.56
#2,074 of 18,122 journals
h-index
365
#288 of 18,122
Citations
1.9M
#133 of 18,122
Works
33k
57.4 citations per work

What is the impact factor of Journal of Clinical Microbiology?

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 Clinical Microbiology: 4.56, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Clinical Microbiology #2,074 of 18,122 journals, in the top 11%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.

What is the h-index of Journal of Clinical Microbiology?

OpenAlex gives Journal of Clinical Microbiology an h-index of 365: 365 of its papers have each been cited at least 365 times. That ranks #288 of 18,122 journals.

How much does Journal of Clinical Microbiology publish?

OpenAlex records 33,225 works in Journal of Clinical Microbiology from 1845 to 2026, cited 1,906,908 times in all, 57.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #133 of 18,122 journals.

still counting200020102020

Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.

About Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Country
United States
ISSN-L
0095-1137
In OpenAlex
1845 to 2026
Open access
OpenAlex lists Journal of Clinical Microbiology as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
OpenAlex record
S53087977

Journals ranked near Journal of Clinical Microbiology

The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Clinical Microbiology on 2-year mean citedness.

RankJournal2-year mean citednessh-index
2,045Aquaculture4.61278
2,063Biological Conservation4.58326
2,073PLoS Genetics4.57341
2,086JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute4.55489
2,095Circulation Research4.53505
2,096Communications of the ACM4.53437

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.