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

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature	296
2	Nature Communications	247
3	Science	231
4	Science Advances	140
5	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	122
6	Scientific Reports	121
7	Heliyon	101
8	PLoS ONE	87
9	Scientific Data	78
10	Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology	73
11	National Science Review	72
12	Science Bulletin	71
13	iScience	69
14	Journal of Advanced Research	67
-	Nature Human Behaviour	67
16	Symmetry-Basel	54
17	Research	48
18	Journal of King Saud University Science	46
19	Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering	42
20	PeerJ	41
21	Royal Society Open Science	37
22	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences	31
-	Fractals-Complex Geometry Patterns and Scaling in Nature and Society	31
24	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	30
25	GigaScience	29
26	Complexity	27
-	Journal of Taibah University for Science	27
28	Research Synthesis Methods	26
-	Advanced Theory and Simulations	26
-	Global Challenges	26
31	International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos	25
32	Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences	24
-	Science Progress	24
34	Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society	22
-	npj Microgravity	22
36	Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences	19
37	Rendiconti Lincei-Scienze Fisiche e Naturali	18
-	Science and Engineering Ethics	18
39	Journal of the Indian Institute of Science	17
-	Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B-Physical and Biological Sciences	17
-	Facets	17
42	National Academy Science Letters-India	15
43	Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias	14
44	Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transaction A-Science	13
-	JoVE-Journal of Visualized Experiments	13
-	Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand	13
47	All Life	12
-	Current Science	12
49	Sains Malaysiana	11
50	Science of Nature	10

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