The Journal of Cell Biology: impact and ranking
The Journal of Cell Biology has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.77 in OpenAlex, which ranks #941 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 596. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.77 #941 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 596 #41 of 18,122
- Citations
- 3.5M #35 of 18,122
- Works
- 29k 122.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Journal of Cell Biology?
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 Journal of Cell Biology: 6.77, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Journal of Cell Biology #941 of 18,122 journals, in the top 5%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The Journal of Cell Biology?
OpenAlex gives The Journal of Cell Biology an h-index of 596: 596 of its papers have each been cited at least 596 times. That ranks #41 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Journal of Cell Biology publish?
OpenAlex records 28,844 works in The Journal of Cell Biology from 1883 to 2026, cited 3,531,593 times in all, 122.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #35 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Journal of Cell Biology
- Publisher
- Rockefeller University Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0021-9525
- In OpenAlex
- 1883 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The Journal of Cell Biology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.jcb.org
- OpenAlex record
- S96410829
Journals ranked near The Journal of Cell Biology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Journal of Cell Biology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 905 | International Journal of Pharmaceutics | 6.90 | 302 |
| 920 | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | 6.84 | 330 |
| 923 | Materials Science and Engineering A | 6.83 | 320 |
| 943 | Chemistry of Materials | 6.76 | 473 |
| 956 | Oncogene | 6.72 | 423 |
| 965 | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | 6.67 | 418 |
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.