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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan: impact and ranking

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan has a 2-year mean citedness of 1.88 in OpenAlex, which ranks #6,811 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 240. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.

2-year mean citedness
1.88
#6,811 of 18,122 journals
h-index
240
#936 of 18,122
Citations
810k
#496 of 18,122
Works
45k
18.0 citations per work

What is the impact factor of Journal of the Physical Society of Japan?

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 Physical Society of Japan: 1.88, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of the Physical Society of Japan #6,811 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 the Physical Society of Japan?

OpenAlex gives Journal of the Physical Society of Japan an h-index of 240: 240 of its papers have each been cited at least 240 times. That ranks #936 of 18,122 journals.

How much does Journal of the Physical Society of Japan publish?

OpenAlex records 45,044 works in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan from 1919 to 2026, cited 810,446 times in all, 18.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #496 of 18,122 journals.

still counting200020102020

Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.

About Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Publisher
Physical Society of Japan
Country
Japan
ISSN-L
0031-9015
In OpenAlex
1919 to 2026
Open access
OpenAlex does not list Journal of the Physical Society of Japan as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
OpenAlex record
S119212824

Journals ranked near Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of the Physical Society of Japan on 2-year mean citedness.

RankJournal2-year mean citednessh-index
6,623Review of Scientific Instruments1.94252
6,653Journal of Biological Chemistry1.93780
6,758The American Journal of Medicine1.89386
6,840The Laryngoscope1.87239
6,842Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences1.87278
6,922Developmental Psychology1.85378

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.