Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology: impact and ranking
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology has a 2-year mean citedness of 44.2 in OpenAlex, which ranks #6 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 621. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 44.2 #6 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 621 #35 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.2M #289 of 18,122
- Works
- 5k 236.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology?
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 Molecular Cell Biology: 44.2, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology #6 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 Molecular Cell Biology?
OpenAlex gives Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology an h-index of 621: 621 of its papers have each been cited at least 621 times. That ranks #35 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology publish?
OpenAlex records 5,041 works in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology from 1995 to 2026, cited 1,191,556 times in all, 236.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #289 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 1471-0072
- In OpenAlex
- 1995 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.nature.com/nrm
- OpenAlex record
- S196724125
Journals ranked near Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 227.7 | 269 |
| 3 | Chemical Reviews | 57.7 | 1,015 |
| 5 | Chemical Society Reviews | 45.5 | 761 |
| 9 | Cell | 41.4 | 1,217 |
| 13 | Reviews of Modern Physics | 35.2 | 618 |
| 15 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 35.0 | 486 |
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.