Journal of Neuroscience: impact and ranking
Journal of Neuroscience has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.29 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,323 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 651. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.29 #2,323 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 651 #28 of 18,122
- Citations
- 5.1M #22 of 18,122
- Works
- 42k 120.3 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Neuroscience?
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 Neuroscience: 4.29, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Neuroscience #2,323 of 18,122 journals, in the top 13%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Neuroscience?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Neuroscience an h-index of 651: 651 of its papers have each been cited at least 651 times. That ranks #28 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Neuroscience publish?
OpenAlex records 42,498 works in Journal of Neuroscience from 1974 to 2026, cited 5,110,892 times in all, 120.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #22 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0270-6474
- In OpenAlex
- 1974 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Neuroscience as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.jneurosci.org
- OpenAlex record
- S5555990
Journals ranked near Journal of Neuroscience
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Neuroscience on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,243 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 4.37 | 471 |
| 2,290 | Journal of Bacteriology | 4.32 | 394 |
| 2,294 | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 4.31 | 266 |
| 2,349 | Journal of Chromatography A | 4.26 | 319 |
| 2,380 | NeuroImage | 4.23 | 523 |
| 2,395 | World Journal of Gastroenterology | 4.22 | 262 |
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.