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The Science of The Total Environment: impact and ranking

The Science of The Total Environment has a 2-year mean citedness of 12.2 in OpenAlex, which ranks #244 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 492. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.

2-year mean citedness
12.2
#244 of 18,122 journals
h-index
492
#96 of 18,122
Citations
4.1M
#30 of 18,122
Works
84k
49.3 citations per work

What is the impact factor of The Science of The Total Environment?

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 Science of The Total Environment: 12.2, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Science of The Total Environment #244 of 18,122 journals, in the top 1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.

What is the h-index of The Science of The Total Environment?

OpenAlex gives The Science of The Total Environment an h-index of 492: 492 of its papers have each been cited at least 492 times. That ranks #96 of 18,122 journals.

How much does The Science of The Total Environment publish?

OpenAlex records 83,572 works in The Science of The Total Environment from 1902 to 2026, cited 4,118,912 times in all, 49.3 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #30 of 18,122 journals.

still counting200020102020

Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.

About The Science of The Total Environment

Publisher
Elsevier BV
Country
Netherlands
ISSN-L
0048-9697
In OpenAlex
1902 to 2026
Open access
OpenAlex does not list The Science of The Total Environment as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,250.
OpenAlex record
S86852077

Journals ranked near The Science of The Total Environment

The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Science of The Total Environment on 2-year mean citedness.

RankJournal2-year mean citednessh-index
232The Lancet Oncology12.4521
238Computers in Human Behavior12.3355
241Biomaterials12.3493
252Carbon12.0389
265Remote Sensing of Environment11.8456
284Environmental Science & Technology11.4591

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.