Nucleic Acids Research: impact and ranking
Nucleic Acids Research has a 2-year mean citedness of 17.2 in OpenAlex, which ranks #101 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 868. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 17.2 #101 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 868 #11 of 18,122
- Citations
- 5.9M #19 of 18,122
- Works
- 56k 106.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Nucleic Acids Research?
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 Nucleic Acids Research: 17.2, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Nucleic Acids Research #101 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 Nucleic Acids Research?
OpenAlex gives Nucleic Acids Research an h-index of 868: 868 of its papers have each been cited at least 868 times. That ranks #11 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Nucleic Acids Research publish?
OpenAlex records 56,086 works in Nucleic Acids Research from 1823 to 2026, cited 5,943,338 times in all, 106.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #19 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Nucleic Acids Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0305-1048
- In OpenAlex
- 1823 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Nucleic Acids Research as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,992.
- Website
- nar.oxfordjournals.org
- OpenAlex record
- S134668137
Journals ranked near Nucleic Acids Research
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Nucleic Acids Research on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | Nature Neuroscience | 18.2 | 592 |
| 83 | ACS Nano | 18.1 | 565 |
| 94 | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 17.5 | 898 |
| 102 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 17.2 | 522 |
| 106 | Nature Cell Biology | 16.9 | 485 |
| 109 | The Journal of Finance | 16.8 | 672 |
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.