Vaccine: impact and ranking
Vaccine has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.36 in OpenAlex, which ranks #3,430 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 263. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.36 #3,430 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 263 #745 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #319 of 18,122
- Works
- 33k 33.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Vaccine?
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 Vaccine: 3.36, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Vaccine #3,430 of 18,122 journals, in the top 19%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Vaccine?
OpenAlex gives Vaccine an h-index of 263: 263 of its papers have each been cited at least 263 times. That ranks #745 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Vaccine publish?
OpenAlex records 33,191 works in Vaccine from 1897 to 2026, cited 1,109,770 times in all, 33.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #319 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Vaccine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0264-410X
- In OpenAlex
- 1897 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Vaccine as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,620.
- OpenAlex record
- S27359860
Journals ranked near Vaccine
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Vaccine on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,359 | PLoS ONE | 3.41 | 593 |
| 3,378 | Journal of Applied Physiology | 3.40 | 404 |
| 3,423 | Chemical Geology | 3.36 | 312 |
| 3,504 | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 3.31 | 735 |
| 3,625 | Psychopharmacology | 3.24 | 287 |
| 3,632 | Limnology and Oceanography | 3.23 | 353 |
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.