Organic Letters: impact and ranking
Organic Letters has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.87 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,849 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 270. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.87 #1,849 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 270 #691 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2M #123 of 18,122
- Works
- 46k 42.3 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Organic Letters?
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 Organic Letters: 4.87, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Organic Letters #1,849 of 18,122 journals, in the top 10%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Organic Letters?
OpenAlex gives Organic Letters an h-index of 270: 270 of its papers have each been cited at least 270 times. That ranks #691 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Organic Letters publish?
OpenAlex records 46,335 works in Organic Letters from 1875 to 2026, cited 1,959,839 times in all, 42.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #123 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Organic Letters
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1523-7052
- In OpenAlex
- 1875 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Organic Letters as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,500.
- OpenAlex record
- S201989124
Journals ranked near Organic Letters
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Organic Letters on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,791 | Biochemical Pharmacology | 4.95 | 292 |
| 1,810 | Pain | 4.93 | 399 |
| 1,817 | Langmuir | 4.92 | 426 |
| 1,861 | Genes & Development | 4.86 | 592 |
| 1,872 | Materials | 4.85 | 248 |
| 1,892 | Geophysical Research Letters | 4.81 | 418 |
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.