History & Philosophy of Science: 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Agriculture and Human Values	22
2	Science and Engineering Ethics	21
3	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	17
-	Public Understanding of Science	17
-	Science & Education	17
6	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	16
7	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science	15
-	Synthese	15
9	Social Studies of Science	14
10	Minerva	13
11	Philosophy of Science	12
12	Biology & Philosophy	11
-	European Journal for Philosophy of Science	11
-	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences	11
15	Science As Culture	10
-	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	10
-	Social Epistemology	10
18	Journal for General Philosophy of Science	9
-	Foundations of Science	9
20	Nexus Network Journal	8
-	Biosemiotics	8
-	Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences	8
23	New Genetics and Society	7
-	Nanoethics	7
-	Isis	7
26	Engineering Studies	6
-	Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte	6
-	Foundations of Chemistry	6
-	Osiris	6
-	History of the Human Sciences	6
31	Journal of the History of the Neurosciences	5
-	Centaurus	5
-	Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos	5
-	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	5
-	Journal of the History of Biology	5
-	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	5
-	British Journal for the History of Science	5
38	Medical History	4
-	Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science	4
-	Theology and Science	4
-	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	4
-	History and Philosophy of Logic	4
-	International Studies in the Philosophy of Science	4
-	Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia	4
-	Cryptologia	4
-	Endeavour	4
-	Perspectives in Biology and Medicine	4
-	Historia Mathematica	4
-	Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences	4
-	Journal for the History of Astronomy	4

-	Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences	4
52	Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science	3
-	Science in Context	3
-	Social History of Medicine	3
-	Annals of Science	3
-	Archives of Natural History	3
-	History of Science	3
-	NTM	3
-	Ambix	3
-	Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia	3
-	Bulletin of the History of Medicine	3
-	Configurations	3
-	Early Science and Medicine	3
-	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	3
65	Earth Sciences History	2
-	Agricultural History	2
-	Dynamis	2
-	Historical Records of Australian Science	2
-	Journal of Medical Biography	2