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 that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2024
1	Journal of Responsible Innovation	ca. 4.1
2	Agriculture and Human Values	ca. 3.6
3	Public Understanding of Science	ca. 3.3
4	Minerva	ca. 3.2
5	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	ca. 3.1
6	Science and Engineering Ethics	ca. 3
7	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	ca. 2.8
8	Social Studies of Science	ca. 2.7
9	Science & Education	ca. 2.5
10	Science As Culture	ca. 2.4
11	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	ca. 2.3
12	Social Epistemology	ca. 2
13	Biosemiotics	ca. 1.9
14	Biology & Philosophy	ca. 1.8
-	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.8
-	European Journal for Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.8
17	New Genetics and Society	ca. 1.5
-	Nanoethics	ca. 1.5
19	Foundations of Chemistry	ca. 1.4
20	Synthese	ca. 1.3
-	Engineering Studies	ca. 1.3
22	British Journal for the History of Science	ca. 1.2
23	Philosophy of Science	ca. 1.1
-	Medical History	ca. 1.1
25	Osiris	ca. 1
-	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences	ca. 1
27	Journal for General Philosophy of Science	ca. 0.9
-	Isis	ca. 0.9
-	Science and Technology Studies	ca. 0.9
-	Foundations of Science	ca. 0.9
31	International Studies in the Philosophy of Science	ca. 0.8
-	History of Science	ca. 0.8
33	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	ca. 0.7
-	Technology and Culture	ca. 0.7
-	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	ca. 0.7
-	Nexus Network Journal	ca. 0.7
-	Social History of Medicine	ca. 0.7
-	History and Philosophy of Logic	ca. 0.7
39	East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal	ca. 0.6
-	Journal of the History of Biology	ca. 0.6
-	Earth Sciences History	ca. 0.6
-	Ambix	ca. 0.6
-	Theology and Science	ca. 0.6
-	Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science	ca. 0.6
45	NTM	ca. 0.5
-	Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography	ca. 0.5
-	Agricultural History	ca. 0.5
-	Centaurus	ca. 0.5
-	Endeavour	ca. 0.5
-	Science in Context	ca. 0.5

-	History of the Human Sciences	ca. 0.5
-	Annals of Science	ca. 0.5
-	Journal for the History of Astronomy	ca. 0.5
-	Journal of the History of the Neurosciences	ca. 0.5
55	Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte	ca. 0.4
-	Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences	ca. 0.4
-	Historia Mathematica	ca. 0.4
-	Theoria-Revista de Teoria Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia	ca. 0.4
-	Nuncius-Journal of the History of Science	ca. 0.4
-	Historical Records of Australian Science	ca. 0.4
-	Journal of Medical Biography	ca. 0.4
-	Cryptologia	ca. 0.4
-	Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences	ca. 0.4
64	Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences	ca. 0.3
-	Historia Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos	ca. 0.3
66	Early Science and Medicine	ca. 0.2
-	Asclepio-Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia	ca. 0.2
-	Archives of Natural History	ca. 0.2
69	Dynamis	ca. 0.1