Kidney International: impact and ranking
Kidney International has a 2-year mean citedness of 12.8 in OpenAlex, which ranks #223 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 391. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 12.8 #223 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 391 #225 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.5M #201 of 18,122
- Works
- 25k 60.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Kidney International?
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 Kidney International: 12.8, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Kidney International #223 of 18,122 journals, in the top 1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Kidney International?
OpenAlex gives Kidney International an h-index of 391: 391 of its papers have each been cited at least 391 times. That ranks #225 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Kidney International publish?
OpenAlex records 25,094 works in Kidney International from 1901 to 2026, cited 1,522,517 times in all, 60.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #201 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Kidney International
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0085-2538
- In OpenAlex
- 1901 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Kidney International as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,500.
- OpenAlex record
- S97303050
Journals ranked near Kidney International
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Kidney International on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 206 | Carbohydrate Polymers | 13.3 | 344 |
| 207 | Journal of Cleaner Production | 13.2 | 454 |
| 208 | Science Advances | 13.2 | 378 |
| 228 | Energy Conversion and Management | 12.5 | 315 |
| 232 | The Lancet Oncology | 12.4 | 521 |
| 238 | Computers in Human Behavior | 12.3 | 355 |
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.