Social Science & Medicine: impact and ranking
Social Science & Medicine has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.91 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,733 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 390. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.91 #2,733 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 390 #228 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.4M #214 of 18,122
- Works
- 24k 60.9 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Social Science & Medicine?
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 Social Science & Medicine: 3.91, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Social Science & Medicine #2,733 of 18,122 journals, in the top 15%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Social Science & Medicine?
OpenAlex gives Social Science & Medicine an h-index of 390: 390 of its papers have each been cited at least 390 times. That ranks #228 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Social Science & Medicine publish?
OpenAlex records 23,721 works in Social Science & Medicine from 1927 to 2026, cited 1,443,767 times in all, 60.9 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #214 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Social Science & Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0277-9536
- In OpenAlex
- 1927 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Social Science & Medicine as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,800.
- OpenAlex record
- S106822843
Journals ranked near Social Science & Medicine
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Social Science & Medicine on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,697 | Free Radical Biology and Medicine | 3.94 | 378 |
| 2,708 | Journal of The Electrochemical Society | 3.93 | 423 |
| 2,728 | Ophthalmology | 3.91 | 370 |
| 2,745 | American Journal Of Pathology | 3.90 | 328 |
| 2,765 | Thorax | 3.88 | 320 |
| 2,782 | Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science | 3.87 | 261 |
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.