Nature Genetics: impact and ranking
Nature Genetics has a 2-year mean citedness of 19.1 in OpenAlex, which ranks #70 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 775. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 19.1 #70 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 775 #14 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.9M #55 of 18,122
- Works
- 12k 246.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Genetics?
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 Genetics: 19.1, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Genetics #70 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 Genetics?
OpenAlex gives Nature Genetics an h-index of 775: 775 of its papers have each been cited at least 775 times. That ranks #14 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Genetics publish?
OpenAlex records 11,873 works in Nature Genetics from 1950 to 2026, cited 2,921,773 times in all, 246.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #55 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Genetics
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1061-4036
- In OpenAlex
- 1950 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature Genetics 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/ng
- OpenAlex record
- S137905309
Journals ranked near Nature Genetics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Genetics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 65 | Advanced Energy Materials | 19.7 | 413 |
| 68 | Nature | 19.3 | 1,839 |
| 69 | Nano Energy | 19.2 | 323 |
| 73 | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 18.8 | 554 |
| 78 | Nature Communications | 18.3 | 744 |
| 81 | Nature Neuroscience | 18.2 | 592 |
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.