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

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature	289
2	Science	237
3	Nature Communications	234
4	Science Advances	133
5	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	127
6	Scientific Reports	114
7	PLoS ONE	89
8	Heliyon	87
9	Science Bulletin	73
10	Scientific Data	72
11	Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology	67
12	iScience	66
-	National Science Review	66
14	Journal of Advanced Research	62
15	Nature Human Behaviour	60
16	Symmetry-Basel	52
17	Journal of King Saud University Science	44
18	Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering	41
-	Research	41
20	PeerJ	39
21	Royal Society Open Science	38
22	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	35
23	Fractals-Complex Geometry Patterns and Scaling in Nature and Society	33
24	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences	30
25	GigaScience	26
26	Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	25
27	Advanced Theory and Simulations	24
-	International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos	24
-	Journal of Taibah University for Science	24
-	Complexity	24
-	Research Synthesis Methods	24
32	Global Challenges	23
33	Science Progress	22
34	Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society	21
-	npj Microgravity	21
36	Science and Engineering Ethics	19
-	Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences	19
38	Rendiconti Lincei-Scienze Fisiche e Naturali	18
39	Facets	15
-	Journal of the Indian Institute of Science	15
-	Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B-Physical and Biological Sciences	15
42	Current Science	14
-	JoVE-Journal of Visualized Experiments	14
44	Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transaction A-Science	13
45	Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias	12
-	Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand	12
-	National Academy Science Letters-India	12
-	Science of Nature	12
49	All Life	11
-	Sains Malaysiana	11

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