New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

History & Philosophy of Science

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 that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)
Rank Journal Impact Factor 2024
1 Public Understanding of Science ca. 4.3
- Agriculture and Human Values ca. 4.3
3 Medicine Health Care and Philosophy ca. 3.6
4 Science and Engineering Ethics ca. 3.4
5 Social Studies of Science ca. 3.2
6 Journal of Responsible Innovation ca. 3.1
- British Journal for the Philosophy of Science ca. 3.1
8 Minerva ca. 2.9
9 Engineering Studies ca. 2.6
10 Science & Education ca. 2.5
11 Nanoethics ca. 2.4
12 Science As Culture ca. 2.2
13 Social Epistemology ca. 2.1
14 Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics ca. 1.7
- Philosophy of Science ca. 1.7
16 Biosemiotics ca. 1.6
- Science and Technology Studies ca. 1.6
18 European Journal for Philosophy of Science ca. 1.5
- Synthese ca. 1.5
20 Biology & Philosophy ca. 1.3
- Osiris ca. 1.3
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ca. 1.3
23 Foundations of Science ca. 1.2
- New Genetics and Society ca. 1.2
25 Medical History ca. 1.1
26 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences ca. 1
27 Archive for History of Exact Sciences ca. 0.9
- British Journal for the History of Science ca. 0.9
- Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences ca. 0.9
- Journal for the History of Astronomy ca. 0.9
- East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal ca. 0.9
- Foundations of Chemistry ca. 0.9
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ca. 0.9
- International Studies in the Philosophy of Science ca. 0.9
- Journal for General Philosophy of Science ca. 0.9
36 Isis ca. 0.8
- Agricultural History ca. 0.8
- History of Science ca. 0.8
39 Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography ca. 0.7
- Theology and Science ca. 0.7
- Annals of Science ca. 0.7
- Journal of the History of Biology ca. 0.7
- Technology and Culture ca. 0.7
44 Ambix ca. 0.6
- History of the Human Sciences ca. 0.6
- Nexus Network Journal ca. 0.6
47 Historia Mathematica ca. 0.5
- Journal of the History of the Neurosciences ca. 0.5
- Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos ca. 0.5
- History and Philosophy of Logic ca. 0.5
- Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science ca. 0.5
- Social History of Medicine ca. 0.5
- Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia ca. 0.5
54 Early Science and Medicine ca. 0.4
- Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences ca. 0.4
- Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte ca. 0.4
- Dynamis ca. 0.4
- Endeavour ca. 0.4
- Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences ca. 0.4
60 Centaurus ca. 0.3
- Journal of Medical Biography ca. 0.3
- NTM ca. 0.3
- Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science ca. 0.3
- Science in Context ca. 0.3
- Cryptologia ca. 0.3
66 Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia ca. 0.2
- Earth Sciences History ca. 0.2
- Archives of Natural History ca. 0.2
- Historical Records of Australian Science ca. 0.2
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