Nature Reviews Genetics: impact and ranking
Nature Reviews Genetics has a 2-year mean citedness of 17.2 in OpenAlex, which ranks #102 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 522. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 17.2 #102 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 522 #75 of 18,122
- Citations
- 898k #421 of 18,122
- Works
- 5.1k 177.3 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Reviews 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 Reviews Genetics: 17.2, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Reviews Genetics #102 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.6%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Nature Reviews Genetics?
OpenAlex gives Nature Reviews Genetics an h-index of 522: 522 of its papers have each been cited at least 522 times. That ranks #75 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Reviews Genetics publish?
OpenAlex records 5,063 works in Nature Reviews Genetics from 1965 to 2026, cited 897,585 times in all, 177.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #421 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Reviews Genetics
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 1471-0056
- In OpenAlex
- 1965 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature Reviews Genetics as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S8553189
Journals ranked near Nature Reviews Genetics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Reviews Genetics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | ACS Nano | 18.1 | 565 |
| 94 | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 17.5 | 898 |
| 101 | Nucleic Acids Research | 17.2 | 868 |
| 106 | Nature Cell Biology | 16.9 | 485 |
| 109 | The Journal of Finance | 16.8 | 672 |
| 111 | American Economic Review | 16.6 | 616 |
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.