Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences: impact and ranking
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences has a 2-year mean citedness of 1.87 in OpenAlex, which ranks #6,842 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 278. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.87 #6,842 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 278 #642 of 18,122
- Citations
- 820k #482 of 18,122
- Works
- 28k 28.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences?
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 Pharmaceutical Sciences: 1.87, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences #6,842 of 18,122 journals, in the top 38%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences an h-index of 278: 278 of its papers have each been cited at least 278 times. That ranks #642 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences publish?
OpenAlex records 28,497 works in Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences from 1876 to 2026, cited 819,563 times in all, 28.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #482 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0022-3549
- In OpenAlex
- 1876 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,620.
- OpenAlex record
- S130661733
Journals ranked near Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,758 | The American Journal of Medicine | 1.89 | 386 |
| 6,811 | Journal of the Physical Society of Japan | 1.88 | 240 |
| 6,840 | The Laryngoscope | 1.87 | 239 |
| 6,922 | Developmental Psychology | 1.85 | 378 |
| 6,934 | Journal of Clinical Oncology | 1.85 | 737 |
| 7,165 | Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research | 1.78 | 348 |
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.