Journal of neurosurgery: impact and ranking
Journal of neurosurgery has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.16 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,767 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 358. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.16 #3,767 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 358 #300 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.4M #229 of 18,122
- Works
- 26k 53.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of neurosurgery?
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 neurosurgery: 3.16, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of neurosurgery #3,767 of 18,122 journals, in the top 21%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of neurosurgery?
OpenAlex gives Journal of neurosurgery an h-index of 358: 358 of its papers have each been cited at least 358 times. That ranks #300 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of neurosurgery publish?
OpenAlex records 25,805 works in Journal of neurosurgery from 1893 to 2026, cited 1,386,542 times in all, 53.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #229 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of neurosurgery
- Publisher
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0022-3085
- In OpenAlex
- 1893 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of neurosurgery as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.thejns.org
- OpenAlex record
- S1995308
Journals ranked near Journal of neurosurgery
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of neurosurgery on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,677 | Phytochemistry | 3.21 | 285 |
| 3,682 | Journal of Applied Physics | 3.21 | 531 |
| 3,721 | American Journal of Epidemiology | 3.19 | 416 |
| 3,780 | Gene | 3.15 | 301 |
| 3,782 | Molecular Microbiology | 3.15 | 336 |
| 3,794 | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery | 3.14 | 468 |
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.