Nature: impact and ranking
Nature has a 2-year mean citedness of 19.3 in OpenAlex, which ranks #68 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 1,839. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 19.3 #68 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 1,839 #1 of 18,122
- Citations
- 26.9M #1 of 18,122
- Works
- 449k 60.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature?
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 Nature: 19.3, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature #68 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.4%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Nature?
OpenAlex gives Nature an h-index of 1,839: 1,839 of its papers have each been cited at least 1,839 times. That ranks #1 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature publish?
OpenAlex records 448,895 works in Nature from 1851 to 2026, cited 26,930,690 times in all, 60.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #1 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0028-0836
- In OpenAlex
- 1851 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$12,690.
- Website
- www.nature.com/nature
- OpenAlex record
- S137773608
Journals ranked near Nature
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | 21.0 | 381 |
| 59 | Nature Protocols | 20.8 | 384 |
| 65 | Advanced Energy Materials | 19.7 | 413 |
| 69 | Nano Energy | 19.2 | 323 |
| 70 | Nature Genetics | 19.1 | 775 |
| 73 | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 18.8 | 554 |
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.
Questions people ask
What is the impact factor of Nature?
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 Nature: 19.3, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature #68 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.4%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
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