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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Agriculture and Human Values	21
2	Science and Engineering Ethics	20
3	Public Understanding of Science	18
4	Synthese	17
-	Science & Education	17
6	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	16
-	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	16
8	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science	15
-	Journal of Responsible Innovation	15
10	Social Studies of Science	13
11	Minerva	12
12	Social Epistemology	11
-	Biology & Philosophy	11
-	European Journal for Philosophy of Science	11
-	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences	11
-	Philosophy of Science	11
-	Science As Culture	11
18	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	10
19	Foundations of Science	9
-	Journal for General Philosophy of Science	9
21	Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences	8
-	Biosemiotics	8
23	Nexus Network Journal	7
-	Nanoethics	7
-	New Genetics and Society	7
26	History of the Human Sciences	6
-	Isis	6
-	Osiris	6
-	Engineering Studies	6
-	Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte	6
-	Foundations of Chemistry	6
-	Journal of the History of Biology	6
33	British Journal for the History of Science	5
-	Centaurus	5
-	Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos	5
-	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	5
37	Cryptologia	4
-	Endeavour	4
-	Journal of the History of the Neurosciences	4
-	Science and Technology Studies	4
-	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	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
-	Theology and Science	4
-	Perspectives in Biology and Medicine	4
-	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	4
-	International Studies in the Philosophy of Science	4
-	Medical History	4

51	Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia	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
-	Journal of Medical Biography	3
-	NTM	3
-	Social History of Medicine	3
-	History of Geo- and Space Sciences	3
-	Annals of Science	3
-	Archives of Natural History	3
-	History and Philosophy of Logic	3
-	History of Science	3
-	Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science	3
67	Science in Context	2
-	Earth Sciences History	2
-	Agricultural History	2
-	Dynamis	2
-	Historical Records of Australian Science	2
-	Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science	2