Nature Reviews Microbiology: impact and ranking
Nature Reviews Microbiology has a 2-year mean citedness of 35.0 in OpenAlex, which ranks #15 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 486. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 35.0 #15 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 486 #100 of 18,122
- Citations
- 812k #494 of 18,122
- Works
- 4.7k 174.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Reviews Microbiology?
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 Microbiology: 35.0, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Reviews Microbiology #15 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 Reviews Microbiology?
OpenAlex gives Nature Reviews Microbiology an h-index of 486: 486 of its papers have each been cited at least 486 times. That ranks #100 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Reviews Microbiology publish?
OpenAlex records 4,667 works in Nature Reviews Microbiology from 1818 to 2026, cited 812,383 times in all, 174.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #494 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Reviews Microbiology
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 1740-1526
- In OpenAlex
- 1818 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature Reviews Microbiology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.nature.com/nrmicro
- OpenAlex record
- S56802129
Journals ranked near Nature Reviews Microbiology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Reviews Microbiology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 44.2 | 621 |
| 9 | Cell | 41.4 | 1,217 |
| 13 | Reviews of Modern Physics | 35.2 | 618 |
| 16 | Cancer Cell | 34.8 | 484 |
| 20 | Nature Medicine | 32.8 | 762 |
| 24 | New England Journal of Medicine | 32.4 | 1,503 |
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.