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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature	294
2	Nature Communications	239
3	Science	234
4	Science Advances	137
5	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	126
6	Scientific Reports	117
7	Heliyon	92
8	PLoS ONE	86
9	Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology	72
-	Science Bulletin	72
-	Scientific Data	72
12	iScience	69
13	National Science Review	66
14	Journal of Advanced Research	64
15	Nature Human Behaviour	62
16	Symmetry-Basel	54
17	Journal of King Saud University Science	45
18	Research	44
19	Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering	41
20	PeerJ	40
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	29
25	GigaScience	27
26	Advanced Theory and Simulations	26
27	Complexity	25
-	Journal of Taibah University for Science	25
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	25
30	Research Synthesis Methods	24
-	Global Challenges	24
-	International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos	24
-	Science Progress	24
34	Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society	22
35	npj Microgravity	21
36	Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences	19
37	Science and Engineering Ethics	18
38	Rendiconti Lincei-Scienze Fisiche e Naturali	17
-	Facets	17
40	Journal of the Indian Institute of Science	16
-	Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B-Physical and Biological Sciences	16
42	Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias	13
-	Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand	13
-	National Academy Science Letters-India	13
45	Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transaction A-Science	12
-	JoVE-Journal of Visualized Experiments	12
-	Science of Nature	12
48	Sains Malaysiana	11
-	Current Science	11
-	All Life	11

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