RSC Advances: impact and ranking
RSC Advances has a 2-year mean citedness of 7.51 in OpenAlex, which ranks #739 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 285. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.51 #739 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 285 #593 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.3M #93 of 18,122
- Works
- 84k 26.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of RSC Advances?
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 RSC Advances: 7.51, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks RSC Advances #739 of 18,122 journals, in the top 4%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of RSC Advances?
OpenAlex gives RSC Advances an h-index of 285: 285 of its papers have each been cited at least 285 times. That ranks #593 of 18,122 journals.
How much does RSC Advances publish?
OpenAlex records 84,002 works in RSC Advances from 1845 to 2026, cited 2,252,657 times in all, 26.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #93 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About RSC Advances
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 2046-2069
- In OpenAlex
- 1845 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists RSC Advances as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$1,042.
- OpenAlex record
- S2481244646
Journals ranked near RSC Advances
The journals with a page that stand just above and below RSC Advances on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 728 | Management Science | 7.55 | 488 |
| 730 | Journal of Medicinal Chemistry | 7.55 | 370 |
| 736 | IEEE Transactions on Power Systems | 7.52 | 372 |
| 742 | Surface and Coatings Technology | 7.50 | 227 |
| 749 | LWT | 7.46 | 222 |
| 763 | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | 7.39 | 460 |
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.