The Plant Cell: impact and ranking
The Plant Cell has a 2-year mean citedness of 10.8 in OpenAlex, which ranks #330 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 501. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 10.8 #330 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 501 #89 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.5M #197 of 18,122
- Works
- 12k 130.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Plant Cell?
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 Plant Cell: 10.8, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Plant Cell #330 of 18,122 journals, in the top 2%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The Plant Cell?
OpenAlex gives The Plant Cell an h-index of 501: 501 of its papers have each been cited at least 501 times. That ranks #89 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Plant Cell publish?
OpenAlex records 11,773 works in The Plant Cell from 1951 to 2026, cited 1,539,797 times in all, 130.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #197 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Plant Cell
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1040-4651
- In OpenAlex
- 1951 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The Plant Cell as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,934.
- Website
- www.plantcell.org
- OpenAlex record
- S48849333
Journals ranked near The Plant Cell
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Plant Cell on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 305 | Corrosion Science | 11.1 | 294 |
| 308 | Proceedings of the IEEE | 11.1 | 471 |
| 322 | Journal of Business Research | 10.9 | 405 |
| 331 | Journal of Clinical Investigation | 10.8 | 706 |
| 332 | Acta Materialia | 10.8 | 421 |
| 335 | Chemosphere | 10.7 | 383 |
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.