New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

History & Philosophy of Science

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics12.300
2 Journal of Responsible Innovation6.328
3 Agriculture and Human Values6.220
4 Public Understanding of Science6.024
5 Social Studies of Science5.868
6 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.632
7 Science & Education5.342
8 Social Epistemology4.276
9 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science4.146
10 Minerva3.977
11 Biology & Philosophy3.820
12 Nanoethics3.075
13 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics2.871
14 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.795
15 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science2.775
16 Engineering Studies2.758
17 Science As Culture2.535
18 Biosemiotics2.490
19 Foundations of Science2.037
20 Philosophy of Science1.993
21 New Genetics and Society1.887
22 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.720
23 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.645
- Foundations of Chemistry1.645
25 Osiris1.312
26 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science1.310
27 Nexus Network Journal1.251
28 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.227
29 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.210
30 History of the Human Sciences1.133
31 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.111
32 History of Science1.101
33 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences0.996
34 Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science0.931
35 Science and Technology Studies0.928
36 Centaurus0.887
37 Journal of the History of Biology0.858
38 Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences0.848
39 East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal0.835
40 Endeavour0.817
41 Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia0.791
42 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.771
43 Medical History0.765
44 History and Philosophy of Logic0.753
45 NTM0.738
46 Cryptologia0.676
47 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte0.638
48 Configurations0.630
49 Bulletin of the History of Medicine0.629
50 Journal for the History of Astronomy0.605
51 Theology and Science0.597
52 Isis0.595
53 Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences0.544
54 Historical Records of Australian Science0.519
55 Annals of Science0.465
56 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing0.445
57 Journal of Medical Biography0.438
58 Ambix0.431
59 Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos0.372
60 Early Science and Medicine0.317
61 British Journal for the History of Science0.303
62 Historia Mathematica0.300
63 Dynamis0.271
64 Science in Context0.259
65 Social History of Medicine0.254
66 Archives of Natural History0.245
67 Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science0.226
68 Agricultural History0.187
69 Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia0.179
70 Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography0.159
71 Earth Sciences History0.144
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