Nature Biotechnology: impact and ranking
Nature Biotechnology has a 2-year mean citedness of 13.4 in OpenAlex, which ranks #198 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 630. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 13.4 #198 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 630 #34 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.9M #137 of 18,122
- Works
- 20k 92.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Biotechnology?
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 Biotechnology: 13.4, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Biotechnology #198 of 18,122 journals, in the top 1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Nature Biotechnology?
OpenAlex gives Nature Biotechnology an h-index of 630: 630 of its papers have each been cited at least 630 times. That ranks #34 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Biotechnology publish?
OpenAlex records 20,255 works in Nature Biotechnology from 1941 to 2026, cited 1,878,260 times in all, 92.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #137 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Biotechnology
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0733-222X
- In OpenAlex
- 1941 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature Biotechnology 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/nbt
- OpenAlex record
- S106963461
Journals ranked near Nature Biotechnology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Biotechnology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 181 | Diabetes Care | 13.9 | 508 |
| 183 | Journal of Financial Economics | 13.8 | 573 |
| 184 | Cement and Concrete Research | 13.8 | 373 |
| 203 | Water Research | 13.3 | 460 |
| 204 | Food Hydrocolloids | 13.3 | 279 |
| 206 | Carbohydrate Polymers | 13.3 | 344 |
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.