Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: impact and ranking
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has a 2-year mean citedness of 8.84 in OpenAlex, which ranks #505 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 1,165. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 8.84 #505 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 1,165 #6 of 18,122
- Citations
- 22.7M #3 of 18,122
- Works
- 173k 131.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Proceedings of the National Academy of 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 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 8.84, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences #505 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 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?
OpenAlex gives Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences an h-index of 1,165: 1,165 of its papers have each been cited at least 1,165 times. That ranks #6 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publish?
OpenAlex records 173,112 works in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from 1915 to 2026, cited 22,688,989 times in all, 131.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #3 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0027-8424
- In OpenAlex
- 1915 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.pnas.org
- OpenAlex record
- S125754415
Journals ranked near Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 480 | Academy of Management Review | 9.09 | 573 |
| 483 | Physical Review Letters | 9.05 | 978 |
| 497 | Strategic Management Journal | 8.92 | 519 |
| 512 | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 8.79 | 375 |
| 522 | Brain | 8.75 | 503 |
| 528 | Journal of Materials Chemistry A | 8.69 | 361 |
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.