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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)
Rank Journal Average citations
1 Science and Engineering Ethics9.016
2 Social Studies of Science5.503
3 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy5.289
4 Public Understanding of Science5.065
5 Journal of Responsible Innovation5.011
6 Agriculture and Human Values4.930
7 Minerva4.521
8 Science & Education4.410
9 Synthese4.198
10 Science As Culture4.104
11 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science3.863
12 Biology & Philosophy3.457
13 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics3.187
14 Nanoethics2.925
15 Social Epistemology2.896
16 European Journal for Philosophy of Science2.838
17 Engineering Studies2.589
18 Biosemiotics2.339
19 New Genetics and Society2.268
20 Foundations of Chemistry2.100
21 Philosophy of Science2.000
22 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science1.876
23 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences1.850
24 Foundations of Science1.754
25 Journal for General Philosophy of Science1.589
26 Archive for History of Exact Sciences1.397
27 Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences1.191
28 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine1.190
29 Nexus Network Journal1.123
30 History of Geo- and Space Sciences1.081
31 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte1.074
32 Science and Technology Studies0.973
33 Osiris0.948
34 Centaurus0.944
35 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences0.920
36 International Studies in the Philosophy of Science0.904
37 Endeavour0.896
38 History of the Human Sciences0.871
39 History of Science0.819
40 Journal of the History of Biology0.810
41 Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences0.715
42 NTM0.679
43 Cryptologia0.669
44 Medical History0.636
45 Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science0.633
46 Bulletin of the History of Medicine0.630
47 Isis0.619
48 Journal for the History of Astronomy0.611
49 History and Philosophy of Logic0.586
50 East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal0.579
51 Ambix0.525
52 Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences0.514
53 Theology and Science0.486
54 Historical Records of Australian Science0.471
55 Annals of Science0.432
56 Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science0.412
57 Historia Mathematica0.408
58 Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia0.381
59 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing0.376
60 Archives of Natural History0.370
61 Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos0.365
62 British Journal for the History of Science0.364
63 Early Science and Medicine0.316
64 Configurations0.314
65 Journal of Medical Biography0.305
66 Social History of Medicine0.223
67 Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia0.222
68 Science in Context0.200
69 Earth Sciences History0.180
70 Dynamis0.153
71 Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography0.124
72 Agricultural History0.094
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