Thorax: impact and ranking
Thorax has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.88 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,765 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 320. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.88 #2,765 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 320 #422 of 18,122
- Citations
- 816k #490 of 18,122
- Works
- 20k 40.8 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Thorax?
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 Thorax: 3.88, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Thorax #2,765 of 18,122 journals, in the top 15%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Thorax?
OpenAlex gives Thorax an h-index of 320: 320 of its papers have each been cited at least 320 times. That ranks #422 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Thorax publish?
OpenAlex records 20,029 works in Thorax from 1946 to 2026, cited 816,425 times in all, 40.8 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #490 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Thorax
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0040-6376
- In OpenAlex
- 1946 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Thorax as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- thorax.bmj.com
- OpenAlex record
- S106546978
Journals ranked near Thorax
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Thorax on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,728 | Ophthalmology | 3.91 | 370 |
| 2,733 | Social Science & Medicine | 3.91 | 390 |
| 2,745 | American Journal Of Pathology | 3.90 | 328 |
| 2,782 | Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science | 3.87 | 261 |
| 2,810 | Molecular Ecology | 3.84 | 321 |
| 2,813 | Journal of Cellular Physiology | 3.84 | 270 |
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.