Physiological Reviews: impact and ranking
Physiological Reviews has a 2-year mean citedness of 24.1 in OpenAlex, which ranks #42 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 561. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 24.1 #42 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 561 #59 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #334 of 18,122
- Works
- 2.7k 400.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Physiological Reviews?
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 Physiological Reviews: 24.1, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Physiological Reviews #42 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.2%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Physiological Reviews?
OpenAlex gives Physiological Reviews an h-index of 561: 561 of its papers have each been cited at least 561 times. That ranks #59 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Physiological Reviews publish?
OpenAlex records 2,705 works in Physiological Reviews from 1921 to 2026, cited 1,083,302 times in all, 400.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #334 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Physiological Reviews
- Publisher
- American Physiological Society
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0031-9333
- In OpenAlex
- 1921 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Physiological Reviews as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- physrev.physiology.org
- OpenAlex record
- S203035050
Journals ranked near Physiological Reviews
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Physiological Reviews on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | Immunity | 25.0 | 567 |
| 39 | Nature reviews. Immunology | 25.0 | 568 |
| 40 | Nature Methods | 24.6 | 504 |
| 43 | Nature Materials | 23.7 | 653 |
| 46 | Advanced Materials | 23.3 | 747 |
| 47 | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 23.3 | 570 |
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.