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History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 2211-1948Verify ISSN ↗2211-1956Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 90 / 254 | 64th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 242 / 307 | 21st | Q4 |
| Ecological Modeling | 42 / 51 | 18th | Q4 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 356 / 432 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 2013–2020), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences is Q2 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 90 of 254), Q4 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 242 of 307) and Q4 in Ecological Modeling (rank 42 of 51), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2, 64th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 2211-1948 and its online ISSN is 2211-1956.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #129 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 132. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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