The EMBO Journal: impact and ranking
The EMBO Journal has a 2-year mean citedness of 8.48 in OpenAlex, which ranks #553 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 563. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 8.48 #553 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 563 #56 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3M #51 of 18,122
- Works
- 22k 137.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The EMBO Journal?
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 EMBO Journal: 8.48, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The EMBO Journal #553 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 The EMBO Journal?
OpenAlex gives The EMBO Journal an h-index of 563: 563 of its papers have each been cited at least 563 times. That ranks #56 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The EMBO Journal publish?
OpenAlex records 22,112 works in The EMBO Journal from 1948 to 2026, cited 3,043,941 times in all, 137.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #51 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The EMBO Journal
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Country
- Germany
- ISSN-L
- 0261-4189
- In OpenAlex
- 1948 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists The EMBO Journal as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$7,990.
- Website
- emboj.embopress.org
- OpenAlex record
- S127916151
Journals ranked near The EMBO Journal
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The EMBO Journal on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 528 | Journal of Materials Chemistry A | 8.69 | 361 |
| 529 | Cell Reports | 8.69 | 319 |
| 534 | Sensors and Actuators B Chemical | 8.65 | 278 |
| 559 | Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 8.42 | 510 |
| 571 | Energy Policy | 8.37 | 357 |
| 583 | American Journal of Psychiatry | 8.31 | 548 |
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.