Life Sciences: impact and ranking
Life Sciences has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.58 in OpenAlex, which ranks #993 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 287. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.58 #993 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 287 #578 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.2M #285 of 18,122
- Works
- 38k 32.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Life 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 Life Sciences: 6.58, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Life Sciences #993 of 18,122 journals, in the top 5%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Life Sciences?
OpenAlex gives Life Sciences an h-index of 287: 287 of its papers have each been cited at least 287 times. That ranks #578 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Life Sciences publish?
OpenAlex records 37,972 works in Life Sciences from 1962 to 2026, cited 1,215,412 times in all, 32.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #285 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Life Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0024-3205
- In OpenAlex
- 1962 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Life Sciences as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,810.
- OpenAlex record
- S175775512
Journals ranked near Life Sciences
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Life Sciences on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 943 | Chemistry of Materials | 6.76 | 473 |
| 956 | Oncogene | 6.72 | 423 |
| 965 | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | 6.67 | 418 |
| 994 | Applied Surface Science | 6.57 | 277 |
| 1,001 | Radiology | 6.55 | 431 |
| 1,030 | Molecules | 6.47 | 346 |
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.