Solar Energy: impact and ranking
Solar Energy has a 2-year mean citedness of 8.26 in OpenAlex, which ranks #593 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 289. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 8.26 #593 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 289 #571 of 18,122
- Citations
- 860k #447 of 18,122
- Works
- 21k 41.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Solar Energy?
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 Solar Energy: 8.26, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Solar Energy #593 of 18,122 journals, in the top 3%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Solar Energy?
OpenAlex gives Solar Energy an h-index of 289: 289 of its papers have each been cited at least 289 times. That ranks #571 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Solar Energy publish?
OpenAlex records 20,585 works in Solar Energy from 1957 to 2026, cited 859,771 times in all, 41.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #447 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Solar Energy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0038-092X
- In OpenAlex
- 1957 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Solar Energy as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,900.
- OpenAlex record
- S5745031
Journals ranked near Solar Energy
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Solar Energy on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 583 | American Journal of Psychiatry | 8.31 | 548 |
| 587 | Environmental Health Perspectives | 8.29 | 409 |
| 591 | Environmental Research | 8.27 | 259 |
| 596 | Genome Research | 8.24 | 399 |
| 605 | Diabetologia | 8.20 | 336 |
| 611 | Journal of Power Sources | 8.16 | 416 |
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.