The American Naturalist: impact and ranking
The American Naturalist has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.86 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,333 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 418. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.86 #4,333 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 418 #169 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #321 of 18,122
- Works
- 25k 44.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The American Naturalist?
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 Naturalist: 2.86, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The American Naturalist #4,333 of 18,122 journals, in the top 24%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The American Naturalist?
OpenAlex gives The American Naturalist an h-index of 418: 418 of its papers have each been cited at least 418 times. That ranks #169 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The American Naturalist publish?
OpenAlex records 24,906 works in The American Naturalist from 1867 to 2026, cited 1,107,606 times in all, 44.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #321 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The American Naturalist
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0003-0147
- In OpenAlex
- 1867 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The American Naturalist as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.journals.uchicago.edu/an
- OpenAlex record
- S122176235
Journals ranked near The American Naturalist
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The American Naturalist on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,267 | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2.89 | 234 |
| 4,281 | Soil Science Society of America Journal | 2.88 | 316 |
| 4,292 | Journal of Applied Polymer Science | 2.88 | 245 |
| 4,347 | Journal of Organometallic Chemistry | 2.85 | 215 |
| 4,353 | Journal of Biomechanics | 2.85 | 325 |
| 4,369 | Child Development | 2.84 | 480 |
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.