The Journal of Pediatrics: impact and ranking
The Journal of Pediatrics has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.61 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,849 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 330. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.61 #4,849 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 330 #374 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.5M #195 of 18,122
- Works
- 50k 30.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Journal of Pediatrics?
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 Pediatrics: 2.61, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Journal of Pediatrics #4,849 of 18,122 journals, in the top 27%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The Journal of Pediatrics?
OpenAlex gives The Journal of Pediatrics an h-index of 330: 330 of its papers have each been cited at least 330 times. That ranks #374 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Journal of Pediatrics publish?
OpenAlex records 50,316 works in The Journal of Pediatrics from 1850 to 2026, cited 1,546,615 times in all, 30.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #195 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Journal of Pediatrics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0022-3476
- In OpenAlex
- 1850 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The Journal of Pediatrics as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,570.
- OpenAlex record
- S3774022
Journals ranked near The Journal of Pediatrics
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Journal of Pediatrics on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,778 | Journal of Climate | 2.65 | 411 |
| 4,783 | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2.64 | 345 |
| 4,836 | BMJ Open | 2.62 | 241 |
| 4,853 | Circulation | 2.61 | 847 |
| 4,899 | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes | 2.59 | 302 |
| 4,954 | Journal of Hepatology | 2.57 | 382 |
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.