Journal of Virology: impact and ranking
Journal of Virology has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.68 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,993 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 421. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.68 #1,993 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 421 #163 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3.4M #37 of 18,122
- Works
- 52k 66.3 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Virology?
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 Virology: 4.68, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Virology #1,993 of 18,122 journals, in the top 11%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Virology?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Virology an h-index of 421: 421 of its papers have each been cited at least 421 times. That ranks #163 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Virology publish?
OpenAlex records 52,070 works in Journal of Virology from 1800 to 2026, cited 3,449,809 times in all, 66.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #37 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Virology
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0022-538X
- In OpenAlex
- 1800 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Journal of Virology as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Website
- jvi.asm.org
- OpenAlex record
- S96615428
Journals ranked near Journal of Virology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Virology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,944 | BMJ | 4.74 | 410 |
| 1,951 | European Journal of Pharmacology | 4.73 | 276 |
| 1,972 | Journal of Lipid Research | 4.70 | 324 |
| 1,994 | Polymer | 4.68 | 342 |
| 2,045 | Aquaculture | 4.61 | 278 |
| 2,063 | Biological Conservation | 4.58 | 326 |
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.