Nature Protocols: impact and ranking
Nature Protocols has a 2-year mean citedness of 20.8 in OpenAlex, which ranks #59 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 384. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 20.8 #59 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 384 #242 of 18,122
- Citations
- 814k #492 of 18,122
- Works
- 4k 202.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Protocols?
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 Protocols: 20.8, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Protocols #59 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.3%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Nature Protocols?
OpenAlex gives Nature Protocols an h-index of 384: 384 of its papers have each been cited at least 384 times. That ranks #242 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Protocols publish?
OpenAlex records 4,017 works in Nature Protocols from 1983 to 2026, cited 814,457 times in all, 202.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #492 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Protocols
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1750-2799
- In OpenAlex
- 1983 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature Protocols as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.nature.com/nprot
- OpenAlex record
- S109387254
Journals ranked near Nature Protocols
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Protocols on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | Accounts of Chemical Research | 21.1 | 562 |
| 57 | The Lancet | 21.0 | 1,203 |
| 58 | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | 21.0 | 381 |
| 65 | Advanced Energy Materials | 19.7 | 413 |
| 68 | Nature | 19.3 | 1,839 |
| 69 | Nano Energy | 19.2 | 323 |
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.