Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences: impact and ranking
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.22 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,404 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 398. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.22 #2,404 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 398 #213 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.6M #190 of 18,122
- Works
- 20k 76.3 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Proceedings 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 Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences: 4.22, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences #2,404 of 18,122 journals, in the top 13%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences?
OpenAlex gives Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences an h-index of 398: 398 of its papers have each been cited at least 398 times. That ranks #213 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences publish?
OpenAlex records 20,457 works in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences from 1902 to 2026, cited 1,561,086 times in all, 76.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #190 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- Royal Society
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0080-4649
- In OpenAlex
- 1902 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S3006207977
Journals ranked near Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,380 | NeuroImage | 4.23 | 523 |
| 2,395 | World Journal of Gastroenterology | 4.22 | 262 |
| 2,398 | Poultry Science | 4.22 | 229 |
| 2,423 | The Economic Journal | 4.19 | 435 |
| 2,424 | Physics of Fluids | 4.19 | 248 |
| 2,425 | Journal of Computational Physics | 4.19 | 420 |
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.