Multidisciplinary Sciences: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature	294
2	Nature Communications	235
3	Science	234
4	Science Advances	134
5	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	126
6	Scientific Reports	116
7	Heliyon	90
8	PLoS ONE	87
9	Science Bulletin	73
10	Scientific Data	72
11	Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology	70
12	iScience	67
13	National Science Review	66
14	Journal of Advanced Research	64
15	Nature Human Behaviour	61
16	Symmetry-Basel	53
17	Journal of King Saud University Science	46
18	Research	42
19	Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering	41
20	PeerJ	40
21	Royal Society Open Science	38
22	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	34
-	Fractals-Complex Geometry Patterns and Scaling in Nature and Society	34
24	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences	28
25	GigaScience	27
26	Advanced Theory and Simulations	26
27	Journal of Taibah University for Science	25
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	25
-	Complexity	25
30	International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos	24
-	Research Synthesis Methods	24
32	Global Challenges	23
33	Science Progress	22
34	Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society	21
-	npj Microgravity	21
36	Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences	19
37	Science and Engineering Ethics	18
38	Rendiconti Lincei-Scienze Fisiche e Naturali	17
39	Facets	16
-	Journal of the Indian Institute of Science	16
41	Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B-Physical and Biological Sciences	15
42	JoVE-Journal of Visualized Experiments	14
43	Current Science	13
-	Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transaction A-Science	13
45	Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias	12
-	Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand	12
-	National Academy Science Letters-India	12
-	Science of Nature	12
49	All Life	11
-	Sains Malaysiana	11

51	Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences	9
-	Defence Science Journal	9
53	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section A-Physical Sciences	8
-	Interdisciplinary Science Reviews	8
55	Scientific American	7
-	Acta Scientiarum-Technology	7
57	Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka	6
-	Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences	6
-	New Scientist	6
60	ScienceAsia	5
-	Advances in Complex Systems	5
-	American Scientist	5
-	Journal of the Royal Society Interface	5
64	Endeavour	4