History & Philosophy of Science: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor
1	Agriculture and Human Values	ca. 4.91
2	Science and Engineering Ethics	ca. 3.78
3	Public Understanding of Science	ca. 3.7
4	Journal of Responsible Innovation	ca. 3.37
5	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	ca. 3.28
6	Science and Technology Studies	ca. 3.11
7	Science & Education	ca. 2.92
8	Social Studies of Science	ca. 2.78
9	Science As Culture	ca. 2.5
10	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	ca. 2.37
11	Minerva	ca. 2.36
12	Engineering Studies	ca. 2.29
13	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	ca. 1.92
14	New Genetics and Society	ca. 1.84
15	Biology & Philosophy	ca. 1.8
16	Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.75
17	Biosemiotics	ca. 1.74
18	Social Epistemology	ca. 1.63
19	European Journal for Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.6
20	Synthese	ca. 1.6
21	Medical History	ca. 1.57
22	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences	ca. 1.45
23	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.38
24	Nanoethics	ca. 1.33
25	British Journal for the History of Science	ca. 1.25
26	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	ca. 1.2
27	Centaurus	ca. 1.2
28	History of Science	ca. 1.04
29	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C-Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences	ca. 0.96
30	Perspectives in Biology and Medicine	ca. 0.94
31	Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences	ca. 0.91
32	Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science	ca. 0.88
33	Social History of Medicine	ca. 0.83
34	Foundations of Chemistry	ca. 0.83
35	Journal of the History of Biology	ca. 0.82
36	Foundations of Science	ca. 0.79
37	History of Geo- and Space Sciences	ca. 0.77
38	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	ca. 0.69
39	Cryptologia	ca. 0.68
40	Bulletin of the History of Medicine	ca. 0.66
41	Technology and Culture	ca. 0.65
42	Journal of the History of the Neurosciences	ca. 0.64
43	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	ca. 0.64
44	Ambix	ca. 0.62
45	Theology and Science	ca. 0.61
46	Endeavour	ca. 0.6
47	History of the Human Sciences	ca. 0.59
48	Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences	ca. 0.55
49	History and Philosophy of Logic	ca. 0.55
50	Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences	ca. 0.55

51	Dynamis	ca. 0.55
52	Isis	ca. 0.51
53	Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte	ca. 0.5
54	Agricultural History	ca. 0.46
55	Nexus Network Journal	ca. 0.43
56	Osiris	ca. 0.42
57	Science in Context	ca. 0.42
58	Early Science and Medicine	ca. 0.38
59	Earth Sciences History	ca. 0.36
60	Annals of Science	ca. 0.34
61	Historia Mathematica	ca. 0.31
62	Journal for the History of Astronomy	ca. 0.27
63	Historical Records of Australian Science	ca. 0.26
64	Archives of Natural History	ca. 0.24
65	Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science	ca. 0.19
66	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	ca. 0.18