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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · ISSN 1422-0067 · 1661-6596

IJMS impact factor, and the open numbers behind it.

Short answer

The Journal Impact Factor is a licensed Clarivate metric, so we do not reproduce it. The closest open equivalent is OpenAlex's two-year mean citedness: 7.08 citations per paper for IJMS, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

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Key metrics

Two-year mean citedness
7.08Citations per paper, papers from the two prior yearsSource: OpenAlex
h-index
426Across all yearsSource: OpenAlex
Papers in 2025
12,342115,564 in totalSource: OpenAlex
Access
OpenAPC about $3,499Source: OpenAlex
Output

Papers per year.

How many works IJMS published in each complete year, as indexed by OpenAlex.

05,00010,00015,00020,00025,000201920202021202220232024202512,342

Fig. 1 — Works per year from OpenAlex. Retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Scope

What IJMS publishes.

Mostly Plant Science, Cancer Research and Physiology, within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease

Most frequent research topics in OpenAlex.

Alternatives

Journals with a similar citation profile.

JournalTwo-year mean citednessh-indexAccess
IJMS7.08426Open
PLOS Biology7.25383Open
CMLS7.25329Open
Cells6.88233Open
Oncogene6.84423Subscription
Questions

About IJMS.

Comment 1What is the IJMS impact factor?
Response

The Journal Impact Factor is a licensed Clarivate metric, so we do not reproduce it. The closest open equivalent is OpenAlex's two-year mean citedness: 7.08 citations per paper for IJMS, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Comment 2Is IJMS open access?
Response

Yes, IJMS is fully open access, with an article processing charge of about $3,499.

Comment 3How many papers does IJMS publish a year?
Response

OpenAlex records 12,342 works in 2025, and 115,564 in total.

Sources

  1. 1. OpenAlex source record · retrieved 23 Oct 2026

The Journal Impact Factor is a Clarivate metric and is not reproduced here.

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