Multidisciplinary Sciences: 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature	296
2	Nature Communications	244
3	Science	230
4	Science Advances	139
5	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	127
6	Scientific Reports	119
7	Heliyon	95
8	PLoS ONE	85
9	Science Bulletin	73
-	Scientific Data	73
11	Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology	72
12	iScience	70
13	National Science Review	68
14	Journal of Advanced Research	66
15	Nature Human Behaviour	63
16	Symmetry-Basel	55
17	Research	46
18	Journal of King Saud University Science	45
19	Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering	41
20	PeerJ	39
21	Royal Society Open Science	36
22	Fractals-Complex Geometry Patterns and Scaling in Nature and Society	33
23	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	32
24	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences	31
25	GigaScience	28
26	Complexity	26
-	Advanced Theory and Simulations	26
-	Journal of Taibah University for Science	26
29	Research Synthesis Methods	24
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	24
-	Global Challenges	24
-	International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos	24
33	Science Progress	23
34	npj Microgravity	22
-	Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society	22
36	Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences	20
37	Science and Engineering Ethics	18
38	Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B-Physical and Biological Sciences	17
-	Rendiconti Lincei-Scienze Fisiche e Naturali	17
-	Facets	17
41	Journal of the Indian Institute of Science	16
42	National Academy Science Letters-India	14
43	Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias	13
-	Current Science	13
-	Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand	13
46	Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transaction A-Science	12
-	JoVE-Journal of Visualized Experiments	12
48	All Life	11
49	Sains Malaysiana	10
-	Science of Nature	10

-	Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences	10
52	Interdisciplinary Science Reviews	9
-	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section A-Physical Sciences	9
54	Defence Science Journal	8
-	Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences	8
56	New Scientist	7
-	Scientific American	7
-	Acta Scientiarum-Technology	7
59	ScienceAsia	6
-	Journal of the Royal Society Interface	6
-	Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka	6
62	Advances in Complex Systems	5
-	American Scientist	5
64	Endeavour	4