Materials Letters: impact and ranking
Materials Letters has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.76 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,550 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 193. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.76 #4,550 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 193 #1,558 of 18,122
- Citations
- 881k #431 of 18,122
- Works
- 43k 20.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Materials Letters?
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 Materials Letters: 2.76, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Materials Letters #4,550 of 18,122 journals, in the top 25%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Materials Letters?
OpenAlex gives Materials Letters an h-index of 193: 193 of its papers have each been cited at least 193 times. That ranks #1,558 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Materials Letters publish?
OpenAlex records 42,593 works in Materials Letters from 1982 to 2026, cited 881,247 times in all, 20.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #431 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Materials Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0167-577X
- In OpenAlex
- 1982 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Materials Letters as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$2,870.
- OpenAlex record
- S55626769
Journals ranked near Materials Letters
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Materials Letters on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,484 | Biochemistry | 2.79 | 442 |
| 4,534 | Evolution | 2.76 | 362 |
| 4,535 | British Journal of Haematology | 2.76 | 265 |
| 4,568 | Anesthesiology | 2.75 | 368 |
| 4,601 | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 2.73 | 393 |
| 4,761 | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2.65 | 410 |
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.