Nature Communications: impact and ranking
Nature Communications has a 2-year mean citedness of 18.3 in OpenAlex, which ranks #78 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 744. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 18.3 #78 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 744 #18 of 18,122
- Citations
- 7.7M #13 of 18,122
- Works
- 93k 82.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Communications?
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 Communications: 18.3, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Communications #78 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 Communications?
OpenAlex gives Nature Communications an h-index of 744: 744 of its papers have each been cited at least 744 times. That ranks #18 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Communications publish?
OpenAlex records 93,308 works in Nature Communications from 1800 to 2026, cited 7,688,288 times in all, 82.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #13 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Communications
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 2041-1723
- In OpenAlex
- 1800 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Nature Communications as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$6,990.
- OpenAlex record
- S64187185
Journals ranked near Nature Communications
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Communications on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 69 | Nano Energy | 19.2 | 323 |
| 70 | Nature Genetics | 19.1 | 775 |
| 73 | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 18.8 | 554 |
| 81 | Nature Neuroscience | 18.2 | 592 |
| 83 | ACS Nano | 18.1 | 565 |
| 94 | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 17.5 | 898 |
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.