Journal of Controlled Release: impact and ranking
Journal of Controlled Release has a 2-year mean citedness of 11.3 in OpenAlex, which ranks #293 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 375. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 11.3 #293 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 375 #261 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.2M #292 of 18,122
- Works
- 19k 63.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Controlled Release?
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 Controlled Release: 11.3, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Controlled Release #293 of 18,122 journals, in the top 2%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Controlled Release?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Controlled Release an h-index of 375: 375 of its papers have each been cited at least 375 times. That ranks #261 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Controlled Release publish?
OpenAlex records 18,636 works in Journal of Controlled Release from 1984 to 2026, cited 1,184,828 times in all, 63.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #292 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Controlled Release
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0168-3659
- In OpenAlex
- 1984 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Controlled Release as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,440.
- OpenAlex record
- S161954266
Journals ranked near Journal of Controlled Release
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Controlled Release on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 284 | Environmental Science & Technology | 11.4 | 591 |
| 287 | Chemical Engineering Journal | 11.4 | 391 |
| 288 | Psychological Bulletin | 11.4 | 648 |
| 294 | Journal of Colloid and Interface Science | 11.3 | 367 |
| 296 | Biosensors and Bioelectronics | 11.3 | 286 |
| 297 | Gut | 11.3 | 451 |
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.