Science Advances: impact and ranking
Science Advances has a 2-year mean citedness of 13.2 in OpenAlex, which ranks #208 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 378. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 13.2 #208 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 378 #251 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.3M #251 of 18,122
- Works
- 21k 63.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Science 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 Science Advances: 13.2, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Science Advances #208 of 18,122 journals, in the top 1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Science Advances?
OpenAlex gives Science Advances an h-index of 378: 378 of its papers have each been cited at least 378 times. That ranks #251 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Science Advances publish?
OpenAlex records 20,619 works in Science Advances from 1879 to 2026, cited 1,302,565 times in all, 63.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #251 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Science Advances
- Publisher
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 2375-2548
- In OpenAlex
- 1879 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Science Advances as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,500.
- OpenAlex record
- S2737427234
Journals ranked near Science Advances
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Science Advances on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 204 | Food Hydrocolloids | 13.3 | 279 |
| 206 | Carbohydrate Polymers | 13.3 | 344 |
| 207 | Journal of Cleaner Production | 13.2 | 454 |
| 223 | Kidney International | 12.8 | 391 |
| 228 | Energy Conversion and Management | 12.5 | 315 |
| 232 | The Lancet Oncology | 12.4 | 521 |
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.