Journal of Fluid Mechanics: impact and ranking
Journal of Fluid Mechanics has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.37 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,243 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 471. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.37 #2,243 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 471 #118 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2M #127 of 18,122
- Works
- 33k 59.3 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Fluid Mechanics?
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 Fluid Mechanics: 4.37, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Fluid Mechanics #2,243 of 18,122 journals, in the top 12%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Fluid Mechanics?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Fluid Mechanics an h-index of 471: 471 of its papers have each been cited at least 471 times. That ranks #118 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Fluid Mechanics publish?
OpenAlex records 32,885 works in Journal of Fluid Mechanics from 1956 to 2026, cited 1,951,431 times in all, 59.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #127 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0022-1120
- In OpenAlex
- 1956 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Fluid Mechanics as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,550.
- OpenAlex record
- S152000018
Journals ranked near Journal of Fluid Mechanics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Fluid Mechanics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,209 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 4.41 | 399 |
| 2,215 | Journal of Neurochemistry | 4.41 | 349 |
| 2,236 | Chemical Communications | 4.38 | 404 |
| 2,290 | Journal of Bacteriology | 4.32 | 394 |
| 2,294 | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 4.31 | 266 |
| 2,323 | Journal of Neuroscience | 4.29 | 651 |
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.