Scientific Reports: impact and ranking
Scientific Reports has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.23 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,616 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 461. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.23 #1,616 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 461 #125 of 18,122
- Citations
- 8.1M #11 of 18,122
- Works
- 317k 25.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Scientific Reports?
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 Scientific Reports: 5.23, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Scientific Reports #1,616 of 18,122 journals, in the top 9%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Scientific Reports?
OpenAlex gives Scientific Reports an h-index of 461: 461 of its papers have each been cited at least 461 times. That ranks #125 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Scientific Reports publish?
OpenAlex records 317,010 works in Scientific Reports from 2011 to 2026, cited 8,063,873 times in all, 25.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #11 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Scientific Reports
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 2045-2322
- In OpenAlex
- 2011 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Scientific Reports as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$2,690.
- OpenAlex record
- S196734849
Journals ranked near Scientific Reports
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Scientific Reports on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,607 | Psychological Medicine | 5.24 | 331 |
| 1,609 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 5.24 | 399 |
| 1,614 | Journal of Affective Disorders | 5.23 | 307 |
| 1,623 | The Astronomical Journal | 5.23 | 354 |
| 1,626 | Journal of Ecology | 5.22 | 364 |
| 1,636 | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics | 5.21 | 391 |
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.
Questions people ask
What is the impact factor of Scientific Reports?
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 Scientific Reports: 5.23, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Scientific Reports #1,616 of 18,122 journals, in the top 9%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
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