History & Philosophy of Science: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	5
-	Minerva	5
-	Synthese	5
4	Philosophy of Science	3
5	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science	2
6	Ambix	1
-	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	1
-	Isis	1
-	Journal of the History of Biology	1
-	NTM	1
-	Centaurus	1
-	Journal for the History of Astronomy	1
-	Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences	1
-	Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science	1
15	Medical History	0
-	Agricultural History	0
-	Annals of Science	0
-	British Journal for the History of Science	0