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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature	296
2	Nature Communications	249
3	Science	225
4	Science Advances	140
5	Scientific Reports	134
6	Heliyon	125
7	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	123
8	PLoS ONE	83
9	Scientific Data	81
10	Science Bulletin	77
11	National Science Review	74
-	Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology	74
13	iScience	73
14	Journal of Advanced Research	72
-	Nature Human Behaviour	72
16	Research	54
17	Symmetry-Basel	52
18	PeerJ	45
19	Journal of King Saud University Science	41
20	Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering	39
21	Royal Society Open Science	38
22	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences	34
23	Research Synthesis Methods	29
-	Fractals-Complex Geometry Patterns and Scaling in Nature and Society	29
-	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	29
26	npj Microgravity	28
27	Advanced Theory and Simulations	27
-	Global Challenges	27
29	Science Progress	26
-	Journal of Taibah University for Science	26
31	GigaScience	25
32	Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences	23
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	23
-	International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos	23
35	Science and Engineering Ethics	16
36	Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B-Physical and Biological Sciences	15
-	Rendiconti Lincei-Scienze Fisiche e Naturali	15
-	Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand	15
-	National Academy Science Letters-India	15
40	JoVE-Journal of Visualized Experiments	14
41	Facets	13
42	Complexity	12
-	Journal of the Indian Institute of Science	12
-	All Life	12
-	Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society	12
46	Sains Malaysiana	11
-	Science of Nature	11
48	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section A-Physical Sciences	10
-	Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias	10
50	Interdisciplinary Science Reviews	9

-	Journal of the Royal Society Interface	9
-	Current Science	9
-	Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences	9
54	Defence Science Journal	8
-	Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transaction A-Science	8
56	Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences	7
-	Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka	7
58	Scientific American	6
-	Acta Scientiarum-Technology	6
60	New Scientist	5
-	ScienceAsia	5
-	Advances in Complex Systems	5
63	American Scientist	4
-	Endeavour	4