New England Journal of Medicine: impact and ranking
New England Journal of Medicine has a 2-year mean citedness of 32.4 in OpenAlex, which ranks #24 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 1,503. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 32.4 #24 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 1,503 #3 of 18,122
- Citations
- 12.3M #8 of 18,122
- Works
- 191k 64.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of New England Journal of Medicine?
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 New England Journal of Medicine: 32.4, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks New England Journal of Medicine #24 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 New England Journal of Medicine?
OpenAlex gives New England Journal of Medicine an h-index of 1,503: 1,503 of its papers have each been cited at least 1,503 times. That ranks #3 of 18,122 journals.
How much does New England Journal of Medicine publish?
OpenAlex records 191,413 works in New England Journal of Medicine from 1812 to 2026, cited 12,336,863 times in all, 64.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #8 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0028-4793
- In OpenAlex
- 1812 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list New England Journal of Medicine as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.nejm.org
- OpenAlex record
- S62468778
Journals ranked near New England Journal of Medicine
The journals with a page that stand just above and below New England Journal of Medicine on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 35.0 | 486 |
| 16 | Cancer Cell | 34.8 | 484 |
| 20 | Nature Medicine | 32.8 | 762 |
| 25 | Energy & Environmental Science | 32.0 | 523 |
| 32 | Nature Nanotechnology | 27.8 | 502 |
| 34 | Nature reviews. Cancer | 26.6 | 595 |
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.