Medicine: impact and ranking
Medicine has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.04 in OpenAlex, which ranks #6,303 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 285. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.04 #6,303 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 285 #593 of 18,122
- Citations
- 860k #449 of 18,122
- Works
- 52k 16.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Medicine?
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 Medicine: 2.04, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Medicine #6,303 of 18,122 journals, in the top 35%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Medicine?
OpenAlex gives Medicine an h-index of 285: 285 of its papers have each been cited at least 285 times. That ranks #593 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Medicine publish?
OpenAlex records 52,184 works in Medicine from 1922 to 2026, cited 859,512 times in all, 16.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #449 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Medicine
- Publisher
- Wolters Kluwer
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0025-7974
- In OpenAlex
- 1922 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Medicine as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$1,950.
- Website
- journals.lww.com/md-journal
- OpenAlex record
- S28966261
Journals ranked near Medicine
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Medicine on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,143 | Neuroscience Letters | 2.09 | 267 |
| 6,146 | Marine Ecology Progress Series | 2.09 | 295 |
| 6,264 | The Journal of Comparative Neurology | 2.05 | 431 |
| 6,319 | eLife | 2.03 | 310 |
| 6,381 | The American Journal of Surgery | 2.02 | 253 |
| 6,389 | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 2.01 | 632 |
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.