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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Agriculture and Human Values	22
2	Science & Education	19
-	Science and Engineering Ethics	19
4	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	18
-	Public Understanding of Science	18
6	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	17
7	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science	16
8	Social Studies of Science	15
-	Synthese	15
10	Journal of Responsible Innovation	14
11	Philosophy of Science	12
-	Minerva	12
-	European Journal for Philosophy of Science	12
14	Social Epistemology	11
-	Biology & Philosophy	11
16	Science As Culture	10
-	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences	10
18	Journal for General Philosophy of Science	9
-	Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences	9
20	Nanoethics	8
-	Biosemiotics	8
-	Foundations of Science	8
23	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	7
-	Engineering Studies	7
-	New Genetics and Society	7
-	Isis	7
-	Nexus Network Journal	7
28	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	6
-	Journal of the History of Biology	6
-	Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte	6
-	Foundations of Chemistry	6
32	Perspectives in Biology and Medicine	5
-	Centaurus	5
-	History of the Human Sciences	5
-	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	5
-	British Journal for the History of Science	5
37	History and Philosophy of Logic	4
-	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
-	Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos	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
-	Osiris	4
-	Cryptologia	4
-	Endeavour	4
-	Journal of the History of the Neurosciences	4
-	Science and Technology Studies	4

-	Bulletin of the History of Medicine	4
-	Historia Mathematica	4
53	History of Science	3
-	International Studies in the Philosophy of Science	3
-	Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science	3
-	Social History of Medicine	3
-	History of Geo- and Space Sciences	3
-	Annals of Science	3
-	Archives of Natural History	3
-	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	3
-	Journal of Medical Biography	3
-	NTM	3
-	Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia	3
-	Ambix	3
-	Configurations	3
-	Early Science and Medicine	3
67	Historical Records of Australian Science	2
-	Science in Context	2
-	Earth Sciences History	2
-	Agricultural History	2
-	Dynamis	2
-	Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia	2