Science: impact and ranking
Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 21.5 in OpenAlex, which ranks #53 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 1,752. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 21.5 #53 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 1,752 #2 of 18,122
- Citations
- 22.7M #2 of 18,122
- Works
- 374k 60.6 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Science?
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 Science: 21.5, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Science #53 of 18,122 journals, in the top 0.3%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Science?
OpenAlex gives Science an h-index of 1,752: 1,752 of its papers have each been cited at least 1,752 times. That ranks #2 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Science publish?
OpenAlex records 374,366 works in Science from 1872 to 2026, cited 22,705,069 times in all, 60.6 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #2 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Science
- Publisher
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0036-8075
- In OpenAlex
- 1872 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Science as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.sciencemag.org
- OpenAlex record
- S3880285
Journals ranked near Science
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Science on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | Nature Materials | 23.7 | 653 |
| 46 | Advanced Materials | 23.3 | 747 |
| 47 | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 23.3 | 570 |
| 55 | Accounts of Chemical Research | 21.1 | 562 |
| 57 | The Lancet | 21.0 | 1,203 |
| 58 | Coordination Chemistry Reviews | 21.0 | 381 |
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.