Oncotarget: impact and ranking
Oncotarget has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.22 in OpenAlex, which ranks #5,778 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 222. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.22 #5,778 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 222 #1,149 of 18,122
- Citations
- 998k #384 of 18,122
- Works
- 28k 36.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Oncotarget?
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 Oncotarget: 2.22, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Oncotarget #5,778 of 18,122 journals, in the top 32%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Oncotarget?
OpenAlex gives Oncotarget an h-index of 222: 222 of its papers have each been cited at least 222 times. That ranks #1,149 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Oncotarget publish?
OpenAlex records 27,621 works in Oncotarget from 1909 to 2026, cited 997,912 times in all, 36.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #384 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Oncotarget
- Publisher
- Impact Journals LLC
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1949-2553
- In OpenAlex
- 1909 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Oncotarget as fully open access.
- OpenAlex record
- S126644158
Journals ranked near Oncotarget
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Oncotarget on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5,616 | Angewandte Chemie | 2.29 | 285 |
| 5,629 | American Journal of Roentgenology | 2.28 | 289 |
| 5,651 | Organometallics | 2.28 | 212 |
| 5,834 | Clinical Cancer Research | 2.21 | 418 |
| 5,887 | Animal Behaviour | 2.19 | 298 |
| 5,923 | Tetrahedron | 2.17 | 307 |
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.