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Best History and Philosophy of Science journals

253 Scopus-active journals are ranked in History and Philosophy of Science. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 63 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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#	Journal	CiteScore	Percentile	Quartile	WoS	ABDC	OA
1	Qualitative Research	10.5	99th	Q1	SSCI	–	No
2	Philosophy and Technology	9.6	99th	Q1	–	–	No
3	Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society	8.7	99th	Q1	–	–	No
4	Social Science and Medicine	8.2	98th	Q1	SCIE, SSCI	A	No
5	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences	7.9	98th	Q1	SCIE	–	No
6	Daedalus	7	97th	Q1	AHCI, SSCI	–	No
7	Social Studies of Science	6.9	97th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
8	Science Education	6.5	97th	Q1	SSCI	–	No
9	Science as Culture	6.1	96th	Q1	AHCI, SSCI	–	No
10	Journal of Sex Research	6	96th	Q1	SSCI	–	No
11	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	5.1	95th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
12	AAPP Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali	4.7	95th	Q1	ESCI	–	Yes
13	Educational Philosophy and Theory	4.7	95th	Q1	SSCI	–	No
14	Biological Theory	4.4	94th	Q1	ESCI	–	No
15	Journal of Sociolinguistics	4.3	94th	Q1	SSCI	–	No
16	Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine	4.3	93rd	Q1	ESCI	–	No
17	Philosophy and Public Affairs	4.2	93rd	Q1	SSCI	A	No
18	Public Opinion Quarterly	4.2	93rd	Q1	SSCI	A	No
19	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science	3.8	92nd	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
20	Ethics and Society	3.6	92nd	Q1	SCIE, SSCI	–	Yes
21	Engineering Studies	3.6	91st	Q1	SCIE, SSCI	–	No
22	Biology and Philosophy	3.5	91st	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
23	Theory and Psychology	3.5	91st	Q1	SSCI	–	No
24	Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine	3.4	90th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	Yes
25	European Journal for Philosophy of Science	3.2	90th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
26	Foundations of Science	3	89th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
27	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research	3	89th	Q1	AHCI	–	No
28	Psychology in Russia: State of the Art	3	89th	Q1	ESCI	–	Yes
29	Interdisciplinary Science Reviews	2.8	88th	Q1	SCIE, SSCI	–	No
30	Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal	2.7	88th	Q1	AHCI, SSCI	–	No
31	Music and Science	2.7	87th	Q1	–	–	Yes
32	Perspectives on Science	2.7	87th	Q1	–	–	No
33	Journal for General Philosophy of Science	2.6	87th	Q1	AHCI	–	No
34	Philosophy of Science	2.6	86th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
35	Science and Technology Studies	2.6	86th	Q1	SSCI	–	Yes
36	Philosophy of Management	2.5	86th	Q1	ESCI	B	No
37	School Science and Mathematics	2.4	85th	Q1	ESCI	–	No
38	Foundations of Physics	2.3	84th	Q1	SCIE	–	No
39	Journal of Education Culture and Society	2.3	84th	Q1	–	–	Yes
40	Technology and Language	2.3	84th	Q1	–	–	No
41	Finance and Society	2.2	83rd	Q1	–	–	Yes
42	Quanta	2.2	83rd	Q1	–	–	Yes
43	Centaurus	2.1	82nd	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
44	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences	2.1	82nd	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
45	Trunojoyo Law Review	2	82nd	Q1	–	–	No
46	History of the Human Sciences	2	81st	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
47	History of Science	1.9	81st	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
48	Moral Philosophy and Politics	1.9	80th	Q1	ESCI	–	No
49	Anthropologie (France)	1.8	80th	Q1	SSCI	–	No
50	Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy	1.8	80th	Q1	–	–	No
51	History and Technology	1.7	79th	Q1	AHCI	–	No
52	Journal of Futures Studies	1.7	79th	Q1	ESCI	–	No
53	British Journal for the History of Science	1.7	78th	Q1	AHCI, SSCI	–	No
54	History of Geo- and Space Sciences	1.7	78th	Q1	SCIE, SSCI	–	Yes
55	Philosophies	1.7	78th	Q1	ESCI	–	Yes
56	Journal of the History of Economic Thought	1.6	77th	Q1	AHCI, SSCI	B	No
57	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	1.6	77th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
58	Isis	1.6	76th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
59	Studia Logica	1.6	76th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
60	Ukrainian Geographical Journal	1.5	76th	Q1	–	–	No
61	Journal of the History of Biology	1.5	75th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
62	Medicina Historica	1.5	75th	Q1	–	–	No
63	Notes and Records	1.5	75th	Q1	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
64	History of Science and Technology	1.5	74th	Q2	ESCI	–	Yes
65	Journal of Interdisciplinary History	1.5	74th	Q2	AHCI, SSCI	–	No
66	History of Education	1.4	73rd	Q2	SSCI	–	No
67	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	1.4	73rd	Q2	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
68	Medical Problems of Performing Artists	1.4	73rd	Q2	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
69	European Journal of the History of Economic Thought	1.4	72nd	Q2	SSCI	B	No
70	Endeavour	1.4	72nd	Q2	SCIE	–	No
71	History Workshop Journal	1.4	71st	Q2	AHCI, SSCI	–	No
72	Perspectives in Biology and Medicine	1.4	71st	Q2	SCIE	–	No
73	Studia Linguistica	1.4	71st	Q2	AHCI	–	No
74	HOPOS	1.3	70th	Q2	ESCI	–	No
75	Journal of East Asian Linguistics	1.3	70th	Q2	AHCI, SSCI	–	No
76	Journal of Islamic Architecture	1.3	69th	Q2	–	–	No
77	Theoria (Spain)	1.3	69th	Q2	AHCI	–	Yes
78	Journal of American History	1.2	69th	Q2	AHCI, SSCI	–	No
79	Apeiron	1.2	68th	Q2	ESCI	–	No
80	Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psihiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova	1.2	68th	Q2	–	–	No
81	Oceania	1.2	67th	Q2	SSCI	–	No
82	Revista de Historia Industrial	1.2	67th	Q2	AHCI, SSCI	–	Yes
83	Substantia	1.2	67th	Q2	–	–	Yes
84	Contributions to Entomology	1.1	66th	Q2	–	–	Yes
85	Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives on its Development	1.1	66th	Q2	–	–	No
86	Journal of Mekong Societies	1.1	65th	Q2	–	–	No
87	Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology	1.1	65th	Q2	–	–	No
88	Intellectual History Review	1	65th	Q2	ESCI	–	No
89	Annals of Science	1	64th	Q2	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
90	History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences	1	64th	Q2	–	–	No
91	European Journal of Analytic Philosophy	1	63rd	Q2	ESCI	–	Yes
92	Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science	1	63rd	Q2	–	–	No
93	Theology and Science	1	63rd	Q2	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
94	Agricultural History Review	1	62nd	Q2	AHCI	–	No
95	Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte	1	62nd	Q2	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
96	Journal of the Philosophy of History	1	62nd	Q2	AHCI	–	No
97	Frontiers Collection	1	61st	Q2	–	–	No
98	History and Philosophy of Logic	1	61st	Q2	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
99	Momento	0.9	60th	Q2	ESCI	–	Yes
100	Thammasat Review	0.9	60th	Q2	–	–	No
101	Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce	0.9	60th	Q2	ESCI	–	Yes
102	Mediterranea	0.9	59th	Q2	–	–	Yes
103	Metode	0.9	59th	Q2	ESCI	–	Yes
104	European Journal of Science and Theology	0.9	58th	Q2	ESCI	–	No
105	Journal for the History of Knowledge	0.9	58th	Q2	–	–	Yes
106	Pragmatics and Cognition	0.9	58th	Q2	AHCI, SSCI	–	No
107	Studia Historiae Scientiarum	0.9	57th	Q2	ESCI	–	Yes
108	Historias Fingidas	0.8	57th	Q2	–	–	Yes
109	Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes	0.8	56th	Q2	–	–	No
110	Educacion y Humanismo	0.8	56th	Q2	–	–	Yes
111	Philosophy of Engineering and Technology	0.8	56th	Q2	–	–	No
112	Humana Mente	0.8	55th	Q2	ESCI	–	Yes
113	Journal of the History of the Neurosciences	0.8	55th	Q2	SCIE	–	No
114	Ambix	0.8	54th	Q2	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
115	HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology	0.8	54th	Q2	–	–	Yes
116	Icon	0.8	54th	Q2	–	–	No
117	British Journal for the History of Mathematics	0.8	53rd	Q2	ESCI	–	No
118	Earth Sciences History	0.7	53rd	Q2	SCIE, SSCI	–	No
119	Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos	0.7	52nd	Q2	AHCI	–	Yes
120	Index de Enfermeria	0.7	52nd	Q2	–	–	No
121	Phronesis	0.7	52nd	Q2	AHCI	–	No
122	Historia (Chile)	0.7	51st	Q2	AHCI	–	Yes
123	Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales	0.7	51st	Q2	ESCI	–	Yes
124	Epistemology and Philosophy of Science	0.7	50th	Q2	ESCI	–	No
125	Journal of Global Faultlines	0.7	50th	Q2	–	–	Yes
126	Mathematical Intelligencer	0.7	50th	Q2	SCIE	–	No
127	Indian Journal of History of Science	0.7	49th	Q3	ESCI	–	No
128	Journal of Medical Biography	0.6	49th	Q3	AHCI	–	No
129	Philosophia Scientiae	0.6	49th	Q3	–	–	Yes
130	Arabic Sciences and Philosophy	0.6	48th	Q3	AHCI	–	No
131	Pirogov Russian Journal of Surgery	0.6	48th	Q3	–	–	No
132	Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences	0.6	47th	Q3	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
133	Paramita	0.6	47th	Q3	–	–	Yes
134	T'oung Pao	0.6	47th	Q3	AHCI	–	No
135	Canadian Journal of Health History	0.6	46th	Q3	–	–	No
136	Nuncius / Istituto e museo di storia della scienza	0.6	46th	Q3	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
137	Archimedes	0.6	45th	Q3	–	–	No
138	Early Science and Medicine	0.6	45th	Q3	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
139	Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology	0.5	45th	Q3	–	C	No
140	Asclepio	0.5	44th	Q3	AHCI	–	Yes
141	Ufa Archaeological Herald	0.5	44th	Q3	–	–	Yes
142	Bulletin of Ugric Studies	0.5	43rd	Q3	ESCI	–	No
143	Filosofiya Nauki i Tehniki	0.5	43rd	Q3	–	–	No
144	Science in Context	0.5	43rd	Q3	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
145	Synthese Library	0.5	42nd	Q3	–	–	No
146	Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences	0.5	42nd	Q3	–	–	No
147	Contributions To Phenomenology	0.5	41st	Q3	–	–	No
148	Istoriya	0.5	41st	Q3	ESCI	–	No
149	Llull	0.5	41st	Q3	–	–	No
150	Critical Animal Studies	0.5	40th	Q3	–	–	No
151	Journal of Early Modern Studies (Romania)	0.5	40th	Q3	ESCI	–	No
152	Journal of Jewish Identities	0.5	40th	Q3	–	–	No
153	Filosofskii Zhurnal	0.5	39th	Q3	ESCI	–	No
154	Medicina Nei Secoli	0.5	39th	Q3	–	–	No
155	Revista Pesquisa Qualitativa	0.5	38th	Q3	–	–	No
156	Voprosy Filosofii	0.5	38th	Q3	AHCI	–	No
157	Historical Records of Australian Science	0.5	37th	Q3	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
158	Erudition and the Republic of Letters	0.4	37th	Q3	ESCI	–	No
159	Studies in Ancient Medicine	0.4	37th	Q3	–	–	No
160	International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics	0.4	36th	Q3	–	–	No
161	Rhizomata	0.4	36th	Q3	ESCI	–	No
162	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (The Netherlands)	0.4	36th	Q3	–	–	No
163	Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari	0.4	35th	Q3	–	–	Yes
164	Scientific Instruments and Collections	0.4	35th	Q3	–	–	No
165	Interdisciplinary Evolution Research	0.4	34th	Q3	–	–	No
166	Korean Journal of Medical History	0.4	34th	Q3	AHCI	–	Yes
167	Victorian Periodicals Review	0.4	34th	Q3	AHCI	–	No
168	Cromohs	0.4	33rd	Q3	–	–	Yes
169	Principia	0.4	33rd	Q3	–	–	Yes
170	Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofia	0.4	32nd	Q3	AHCI	–	Yes
171	Iranian Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine	0.4	32nd	Q3	–	–	No
172	Medizinhistorisches Journal	0.4	32nd	Q3	ESCI	–	No
173	Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche	0.4	31st	Q3	AHCI, SCIE	–	No
174	Emergence of Natural History	0.4	31st	Q3	–	–	No
175	International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees	0.4	30th	Q3	–	–	No
176	Antiquitates Mathematicae	0.3	30th	Q3	–	–	No
177	Prometeica	0.3	30th	Q3	ESCI	–	Yes
178	East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine	0.3	29th	Q3	–	–	No
179	Filosofiya. Zhurnal Vysshey Shkoly Ekonomiki	0.3	29th	Q3	–	–	No
180	History of Education and Children's Literature	0.3	28th	Q3	AHCI	–	No
181	Noctua	0.3	28th	Q3	–	–	Yes
182	Trends in Logic	0.3	28th	Q3	–	–	No
183	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	0.3	27th	Q3	–	–	No
184	Micrologus	0.3	27th	Q3	ESCI	–	No
185	Historia Scientiarum	0.3	26th	Q3	–	–	No
186	History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis	0.3	26th	Q3	ESCI	–	No
187	Lexis Supplementi: Studies in Ancient Philosophy	0.3	26th	Q3	–	–	No
188	Dynamis	0.3	25th	Q3	AHCI, SCIE, SSCI	–	No
189	Revue d'Histoire des Sciences	0.3	25th	Q3	ESCI	–	No
190	Studi Lockiani	0.3	25th	Q3	–	–	No
191	Esbocos	0.2	24th	Q4	–	–	Yes
192	Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science	0.2	24th	Q4	–	–	No
193	Journal of Research on History of Medicine	0.2	23rd	Q4	–	–	Yes
194	Revista Brasileira de Historia da Ciencia	0.2	23rd	Q4	–	–	Yes
195	Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology	0.2	22nd	Q4	–	–	No
196	Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation	0.2	22nd	Q4	–	–	No
197	SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology	0.2	22nd	Q4	–	–	No
198	Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action	0.2	21st	Q4	–	–	No
199	Kunstkamera	0.2	21st	Q4	–	–	No
200	Teorie Vedy / Theory of Science	0.2	21st	Q4	–	–	Yes
201	Galilaeana	0.2	20th	Q4	AHCI	–	Yes
202	Global Histories of Education	0.2	20th	Q4	–	–	No
203	Cuadernos de Ilustracion y Romanticismo	0.2	19th	Q4	ESCI	–	Yes
204	KronoScope	0.2	19th	Q4	ESCI	–	No
205	Research in Economic History	0.2	19th	Q4	–	–	No
206	Radovi Zavoda za Znanstvenoistrazivacki i Umjetnicki Rad u Bjelovaru	0.2	18th	Q4	–	–	Yes
207	Solska kronika	0.2	18th	Q4	–	–	Yes
208	Boletin del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana 'Dr. Emilio Ravignani'	0.2	17th	Q4	–	–	Yes
209	Akademiska Dzive	0.2	16th	Q4	–	–	Yes
210	Humanidades	0.2	16th	Q4	–	–	Yes
211	Library and Information History	0.2	16th	Q4	ESCI	–	No
212	Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions	0.2	16th	Q4	–	–	No
213	Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki	0.2	15th	Q4	–	–	Yes
214	Mental Health in Historical Perspective	0.2	15th	Q4	–	–	No
215	Orbis Idearum	0.2	15th	Q4	–	–	Yes
216	Occhiali - Rivista sul Mediterraneo Islamico	0.2	14th	Q4	–	–	Yes
217	Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series	0.2	14th	Q4	–	–	No
218	Politicas de la Memoria	0.2	13th	Q4	–	–	Yes
219	Prismas: Revista de Historia Intelectual	0.2	13th	Q4	–	–	Yes
220	Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki	0.2	13th	Q4	–	–	No
221	Histoire de l'Education	0.2	12th	Q4	–	–	No
222	Trends in the History of Science	0.2	12th	Q4	–	–	No
223	Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion	0.1	12th	Q4	–	–	No
224	Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie	0.1	11th	Q4	–	–	No
225	Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology	0.1	11th	Q4	–	–	No
226	Anticipation Science	0.1	10th	Q4	–	–	No
227	Historia et Ius	0.1	10th	Q4	–	–	Yes
228	Renaissance and Reformation	0.1	10th	Q4	AHCI	–	No
229	Lexicon Philosophicum	0.1	9th	Q4	–	–	Yes
230	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine	0.1	9th	Q4	–	–	No
231	Africa (Italy)	0.1	8th	Q4	–	–	No
232	European Studies in Philosophy of Science	0.1	8th	Q4	–	–	No
233	Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought	0.1	8th	Q4	–	–	No
234	Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History	0.1	7th	Q4	–	–	No
235	Sudhoffs Archiv	0.1	7th	Q4	–	–	No
236	Margens	0.1	6th	Q4	–	–	No
237	Mediaeval Sophia	0.1	6th	Q4	–	–	Yes
238	Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, and Society	0.1	6th	Q4	–	–	No
239	Science Networks. Historical Studies	0.1	5th	Q4	–	–	No
240	Studia Polonijne	0.1	5th	Q4	–	–	No
241	Argumenta Philosophica	0.1	4th	Q4	–	–	No
242	Clio Medica	0.1	4th	Q4	–	–	No
243	Critical Plant Studies	0	4th	Q4	–	–	No
244	Res Gestae	0	3rd	Q4	–	–	Yes
245	Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind	0	3rd	Q4	–	–	No
246	Metatheoria	0	2nd	Q4	–	–	No
247	Sguardo	0	2nd	Q4	ESCI	–	Yes
248	Studia Leibnitiana	0	2nd	Q4	AHCI	–	No
249	Radix	0	1st	Q4	–	–	No
250	Nuncius Series	0	0th	Q4	–	–	No
251	Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities	0	0th	Q4	–	–	No
252	Recovering Political Philosophy	0	0th	Q4	–	–	No
253	Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences	0	0th	Q4	–	–	No

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