Nature Medicine: impact and ranking
Nature Medicine has a 2-year mean citedness of 32.8 in OpenAlex, which ranks #20 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 762. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 32.8 #20 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 762 #15 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.6M #74 of 18,122
- Works
- 17k 152.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Medicine?
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 Medicine: 32.8, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Medicine #20 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Nature Medicine?
OpenAlex gives Nature Medicine an h-index of 762: 762 of its papers have each been cited at least 762 times. That ranks #15 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Medicine publish?
OpenAlex records 16,787 works in Nature Medicine from 1995 to 2026, cited 2,564,735 times in all, 152.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #74 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Medicine
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1078-8956
- In OpenAlex
- 1995 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature Medicine 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/nm/index.html
- OpenAlex record
- S203256638
Journals ranked near Nature Medicine
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Medicine on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Reviews of Modern Physics | 35.2 | 618 |
| 15 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 35.0 | 486 |
| 16 | Cancer Cell | 34.8 | 484 |
| 24 | New England Journal of Medicine | 32.4 | 1,503 |
| 25 | Energy & Environmental Science | 32.0 | 523 |
| 32 | Nature Nanotechnology | 27.8 | 502 |
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.