Physics Letters B: impact and ranking
Physics Letters B has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.50 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,118 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 447. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.50 #2,118 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 447 #143 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.6M #73 of 18,122
- Works
- 68k 37.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Physics Letters B?
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 Physics Letters B: 4.50, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Physics Letters B #2,118 of 18,122 journals, in the top 12%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Physics Letters B?
OpenAlex gives Physics Letters B an h-index of 447: 447 of its papers have each been cited at least 447 times. That ranks #143 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Physics Letters B publish?
OpenAlex records 68,176 works in Physics Letters B from 1962 to 2026, cited 2,573,729 times in all, 37.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #73 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Physics Letters B
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- Netherlands
- ISSN-L
- 0370-2693
- In OpenAlex
- 1962 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Physics Letters B as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- OpenAlex record
- S173952182
Journals ranked near Physics Letters B
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Physics Letters B on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,096 | Communications of the ACM | 4.53 | 437 |
| 2,102 | Cancer | 4.52 | 473 |
| 2,104 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 4.52 | 479 |
| 2,126 | BMC Genomics | 4.49 | 255 |
| 2,151 | Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research | 4.47 | 301 |
| 2,152 | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 4.47 | 289 |
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.