Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences: impact and ranking
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences has a 2-year mean citedness of 9.11 in OpenAlex, which ranks #472 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 417. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 9.11 #472 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 417 #173 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #330 of 18,122
- Works
- 11k 100.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences?
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 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences: 9.11, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences #472 of 18,122 journals, in the top 3%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences?
OpenAlex gives Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences an h-index of 417: 417 of its papers have each been cited at least 417 times. That ranks #173 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences publish?
OpenAlex records 10,861 works in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences from 1970 to 2026, cited 1,090,476 times in all, 100.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #330 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- Royal Society
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0962-8436
- In OpenAlex
- 1970 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S91660768
Journals ranked near Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 453 | Nano Letters | 9.26 | 603 |
| 456 | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules | 9.23 | 271 |
| 468 | European Respiratory Journal | 9.12 | 357 |
| 473 | Journal of Membrane Science | 9.11 | 347 |
| 474 | Small | 9.11 | 350 |
| 480 | Academy of Management Review | 9.09 | 573 |
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.