Neurosurgery: impact and ranking
Neurosurgery has a 2-year mean citedness of 1.07 in OpenAlex, which ranks #9,698 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 300. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.07 #9,698 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 300 #524 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1M #382 of 18,122
- Works
- 42k 23.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Neurosurgery?
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 Neurosurgery: 1.07, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Neurosurgery #9,698 of 18,122 journals, in the top 54%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Neurosurgery?
OpenAlex gives Neurosurgery an h-index of 300: 300 of its papers have each been cited at least 300 times. That ranks #524 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Neurosurgery publish?
OpenAlex records 42,315 works in Neurosurgery from 1809 to 2026, cited 1,000,299 times in all, 23.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #382 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Neurosurgery
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0148-396X
- In OpenAlex
- 1809 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Neurosurgery as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.neurosurgery-online.com
- OpenAlex record
- S111727011
Journals ranked near Neurosurgery
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Neurosurgery on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9,095 | IEEE Transactions on Magnetics | 1.22 | 203 |
| 9,114 | BioMed Research International | 1.22 | 257 |
| 9,658 | Journal of Vascular Surgery | 1.08 | 276 |
| 9,836 | Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology | 1.03 | 323 |
| 9,940 | Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | 1.00 | 325 |
| 10,124 | Clinical Chemistry | 0.96 | 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.