Nature Cell Biology: impact and ranking
Nature Cell Biology has a 2-year mean citedness of 16.9 in OpenAlex, which ranks #106 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 485. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 16.9 #106 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 485 #101 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #342 of 18,122
- Works
- 6.8k 156.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Cell Biology?
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 Cell Biology: 16.9, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Cell Biology #106 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.6%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Nature Cell Biology?
OpenAlex gives Nature Cell Biology an h-index of 485: 485 of its papers have each been cited at least 485 times. That ranks #101 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Cell Biology publish?
OpenAlex records 6,831 works in Nature Cell Biology from 1887 to 2026, cited 1,069,288 times in all, 156.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #342 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Cell Biology
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 1465-7392
- In OpenAlex
- 1887 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature Cell Biology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$12,690.
- OpenAlex record
- S151741590
Journals ranked near Nature Cell Biology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Cell Biology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 94 | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 17.5 | 898 |
| 101 | Nucleic Acids Research | 17.2 | 868 |
| 102 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 17.2 | 522 |
| 109 | The Journal of Finance | 16.8 | 672 |
| 111 | American Economic Review | 16.6 | 616 |
| 112 | Applied Catalysis B: Environmental | 16.6 | 397 |
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.