Review of Scientific Instruments: impact and ranking
Review of Scientific Instruments has a 2-year mean citedness of 1.94 in OpenAlex, which ranks #6,623 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 252. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.94 #6,623 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 252 #827 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1M #374 of 18,122
- Works
- 58k 17.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Review of Scientific Instruments?
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 Review of Scientific Instruments: 1.94, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Review of Scientific Instruments #6,623 of 18,122 journals, in the top 37%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Review of Scientific Instruments?
OpenAlex gives Review of Scientific Instruments an h-index of 252: 252 of its papers have each been cited at least 252 times. That ranks #827 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Review of Scientific Instruments publish?
OpenAlex records 57,833 works in Review of Scientific Instruments from 1930 to 2026, cited 1,014,208 times in all, 17.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #374 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Review of Scientific Instruments
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0034-6748
- In OpenAlex
- 1930 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Review of Scientific Instruments as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- rsi.aip.org
- OpenAlex record
- S31010182
Journals ranked near Review of Scientific Instruments
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Review of Scientific Instruments on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,381 | The American Journal of Surgery | 2.02 | 253 |
| 6,389 | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 2.01 | 632 |
| 6,538 | Developmental Biology | 1.96 | 335 |
| 6,653 | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 1.93 | 780 |
| 6,758 | The American Journal of Medicine | 1.89 | 386 |
| 6,811 | Journal of the Physical Society of Japan | 1.88 | 240 |
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.