Marine Pollution Bulletin: impact and ranking
Marine Pollution Bulletin has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.51 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,468 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 302. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.51 #1,468 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 302 #509 of 18,122
- Citations
- 932k #404 of 18,122
- Works
- 28k 32.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Marine Pollution Bulletin?
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 Marine Pollution Bulletin: 5.51, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Marine Pollution Bulletin #1,468 of 18,122 journals, in the top 8%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Marine Pollution Bulletin?
OpenAlex gives Marine Pollution Bulletin an h-index of 302: 302 of its papers have each been cited at least 302 times. That ranks #509 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Marine Pollution Bulletin publish?
OpenAlex records 28,341 works in Marine Pollution Bulletin from 1847 to 2026, cited 932,409 times in all, 32.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #404 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Marine Pollution Bulletin
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0025-326X
- In OpenAlex
- 1847 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Marine Pollution Bulletin as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,740.
- OpenAlex record
- S101229256
Journals ranked near Marine Pollution Bulletin
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Marine Pollution Bulletin on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,434 | Journal of Sound and Vibration | 5.57 | 274 |
| 1,437 | Analytica Chimica Acta | 5.57 | 305 |
| 1,453 | Frontiers in Immunology | 5.55 | 350 |
| 1,484 | Journal of Molecular Structure | 5.49 | 210 |
| 1,487 | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 5.49 | 499 |
| 1,499 | PLoS Pathogens | 5.47 | 314 |
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.