Nature Materials: impact and ranking
Nature Materials has a 2-year mean citedness of 23.7 in OpenAlex, which ranks #43 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 653. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 23.7 #43 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 653 #27 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.7M #162 of 18,122
- Works
- 7.1k 242.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Materials?
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 Materials: 23.7, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Materials #43 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.2%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Nature Materials?
OpenAlex gives Nature Materials an h-index of 653: 653 of its papers have each been cited at least 653 times. That ranks #27 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Materials publish?
OpenAlex records 7,065 works in Nature Materials from 1859 to 2026, cited 1,710,959 times in all, 242.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #162 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Materials
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 1476-1122
- In OpenAlex
- 1859 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature Materials 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/nmat
- OpenAlex record
- S103895331
Journals ranked near Nature Materials
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Materials on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | Nature reviews. Immunology | 25.0 | 568 |
| 40 | Nature Methods | 24.6 | 504 |
| 42 | Physiological Reviews | 24.1 | 561 |
| 46 | Advanced Materials | 23.3 | 747 |
| 47 | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 23.3 | 570 |
| 53 | Science | 21.5 | 1,752 |
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.