Virology: impact and ranking
Virology has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.00 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,036 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 283. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.00 #4,036 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 283 #610 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.3M #244 of 18,122
- Works
- 30k 44.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Virology?
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 Virology: 3.00, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Virology #4,036 of 18,122 journals, in the top 22%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Virology?
OpenAlex gives Virology an h-index of 283: 283 of its papers have each been cited at least 283 times. That ranks #610 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Virology publish?
OpenAlex records 30,201 works in Virology from 1938 to 2026, cited 1,330,139 times in all, 44.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #244 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Virology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0042-6822
- In OpenAlex
- 1938 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Virology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,160.
- OpenAlex record
- S6147291
Journals ranked near Virology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Virology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,027 | American Heart Journal | 3.00 | 297 |
| 4,029 | Physical Review A | 3.00 | 457 |
| 4,030 | Neuroscience | 3.00 | 370 |
| 4,038 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry A | 2.99 | 284 |
| 4,041 | Chemical Physics Letters | 2.99 | 343 |
| 4,079 | Biology of Reproduction | 2.98 | 268 |
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.