Journal of Medicinal Chemistry: impact and ranking
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry has a 2-year mean citedness of 7.55 in OpenAlex, which ranks #730 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 370. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.55 #730 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 370 #277 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2M #121 of 18,122
- Works
- 41k 48.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Medicinal 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 Medicinal Chemistry: 7.55, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Medicinal Chemistry #730 of 18,122 journals, in the top 4%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Medicinal Chemistry an h-index of 370: 370 of its papers have each been cited at least 370 times. That ranks #277 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Medicinal Chemistry publish?
OpenAlex records 40,992 works in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry from 1832 to 2026, cited 1,984,444 times in all, 48.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #121 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0022-2623
- In OpenAlex
- 1832 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Medicinal Chemistry as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,500.
- Website
- pubs.acs.org/journal/jmcmar
- OpenAlex record
- S162030435
Journals ranked near Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Medicinal Chemistry on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 697 | Fuel | 7.70 | 312 |
| 704 | Journal of Hydrology | 7.63 | 360 |
| 728 | Management Science | 7.55 | 488 |
| 736 | IEEE Transactions on Power Systems | 7.52 | 372 |
| 739 | RSC Advances | 7.51 | 285 |
| 742 | Surface and Coatings Technology | 7.50 | 227 |
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.