The American Journal of Human Genetics: impact and ranking
The American Journal of Human Genetics has a 2-year mean citedness of 7.32 in OpenAlex, which ranks #778 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 386. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.32 #778 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 386 #235 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1M #361 of 18,122
- Works
- 11k 92.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The American Journal of Human Genetics?
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 The American Journal of Human Genetics: 7.32, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The American Journal of Human Genetics #778 of 18,122 journals, in the top 4%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The American Journal of Human Genetics?
OpenAlex gives The American Journal of Human Genetics an h-index of 386: 386 of its papers have each been cited at least 386 times. That ranks #235 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The American Journal of Human Genetics publish?
OpenAlex records 11,218 works in The American Journal of Human Genetics from 1949 to 2026, cited 1,033,772 times in all, 92.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #361 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The American Journal of Human Genetics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0002-9297
- In OpenAlex
- 1949 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The American Journal of Human Genetics as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$5,150.
- OpenAlex record
- S134425043
Journals ranked near The American Journal of Human Genetics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The American Journal of Human Genetics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 749 | LWT | 7.46 | 222 |
| 763 | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | 7.39 | 460 |
| 766 | Hepatology | 7.37 | 480 |
| 784 | Food Research International | 7.31 | 280 |
| 795 | Analytical Chemistry | 7.27 | 483 |
| 807 | Water Resources Research | 7.22 | 421 |
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.