Journal of the American Chemical Society: impact and ranking
Journal of the American Chemical Society has a 2-year mean citedness of 17.5 in OpenAlex, which ranks #94 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 898. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 17.5 #94 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 898 #10 of 18,122
- Citations
- 15.8M #5 of 18,122
- Works
- 222k 71.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of the American Chemical Society?
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 the American Chemical Society: 17.5, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of the American Chemical Society #94 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.5%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of the American Chemical Society?
OpenAlex gives Journal of the American Chemical Society an h-index of 898: 898 of its papers have each been cited at least 898 times. That ranks #10 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of the American Chemical Society publish?
OpenAlex records 222,375 works in Journal of the American Chemical Society from 1805 to 2026, cited 15,833,590 times in all, 71.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #5 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0002-7863
- In OpenAlex
- 1805 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of the American Chemical Society as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,500.
- OpenAlex record
- S111155417
Journals ranked near Journal of the American Chemical Society
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of the American Chemical Society on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 78 | Nature Communications | 18.3 | 744 |
| 81 | Nature Neuroscience | 18.2 | 592 |
| 83 | ACS Nano | 18.1 | 565 |
| 101 | Nucleic Acids Research | 17.2 | 868 |
| 102 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 17.2 | 522 |
| 106 | Nature Cell Biology | 16.9 | 485 |
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.