PEDIATRICS: impact and ranking
PEDIATRICS has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.14 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,671 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 516. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.14 #1,671 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 516 #79 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.8M #62 of 18,122
- Works
- 60k 46.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of PEDIATRICS?
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 PEDIATRICS: 5.14, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks PEDIATRICS #1,671 of 18,122 journals, in the top 9%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of PEDIATRICS?
OpenAlex gives PEDIATRICS an h-index of 516: 516 of its papers have each been cited at least 516 times. That ranks #79 of 18,122 journals.
How much does PEDIATRICS publish?
OpenAlex records 60,384 works in PEDIATRICS from 1840 to 2026, cited 2,790,116 times in all, 46.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #62 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About PEDIATRICS
- Publisher
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0031-4005
- In OpenAlex
- 1840 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list PEDIATRICS as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S77494981
Journals ranked near PEDIATRICS
The journals with a page that stand just above and below PEDIATRICS on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,636 | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics | 5.21 | 391 |
| 1,643 | Genetics | 5.19 | 416 |
| 1,659 | Electrochimica Acta | 5.16 | 329 |
| 1,680 | British Journal of Pharmacology | 5.13 | 318 |
| 1,684 | Inorganic Chemistry | 5.13 | 310 |
| 1,708 | Journal of Applied Psychology | 5.08 | 527 |
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.