Nature Methods: impact and ranking
Nature Methods has a 2-year mean citedness of 24.6 in OpenAlex, which ranks #40 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 504. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 24.6 #40 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 504 #86 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.6M #192 of 18,122
- Works
- 8.5k 184.3 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Methods?
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 Methods: 24.6, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Methods #40 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 Methods?
OpenAlex gives Nature Methods an h-index of 504: 504 of its papers have each been cited at least 504 times. That ranks #86 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Methods publish?
OpenAlex records 8,459 works in Nature Methods from 1919 to 2026, cited 1,559,268 times in all, 184.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #192 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Methods
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1548-7091
- In OpenAlex
- 1919 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature Methods 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/nmeth
- OpenAlex record
- S127827428
Journals ranked near Nature Methods
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Methods on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | Annual Review of Biochemistry | 26.5 | 539 |
| 38 | Immunity | 25.0 | 567 |
| 39 | Nature reviews. Immunology | 25.0 | 568 |
| 42 | Physiological Reviews | 24.1 | 561 |
| 43 | Nature Materials | 23.7 | 653 |
| 46 | Advanced Materials | 23.3 | 747 |
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.