Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
History and Philosophy of Science journal rankings 2023
28 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
History and Philosophy of Science has 28 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.98, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.27. The top three are International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Evolution Education and Outreach, and The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Arts and Humanities (13)
28 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1International Studies in the Philosophy of ScienceRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 2.84 1.96 up from 2022 | 57 | 42% | — | ||
2Evolution Education and OutreachOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.84 1.29 down from 2022 | 60 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
3The British Journal for the Philosophy of ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 1.53Q1 | 2.14 0.43 up from 2022 | 146 | 45% | — | ||
4European Journal for Philosophy of ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.41Q1 | 1.95 0.45 down from 2022 | 223 | 85% | $2,190 | ||
5Journal for the History of KnowledgeOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 0.79 0.91 down from 2022 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
6Interdisciplinary Science ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 2.76 1.00 up from 2022 | 127 | 46% | $4,150 | ||
7Journal for General Philosophy of ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.27Q1 | 1.63 0.21 up from 2022 | 107 | 63% | $3,290 | ||
8Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part AElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 2.38 0.34 up from 2022 | 331 | 49% | $2,930 | ||
9Philosophy of ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 1.23Q2 | 1.24 0.95 down from 2022 | 291 | 91% | $3,550 | ||
10Perspectives on ScienceThe MIT Press · United States | 1.14Q2 | 1.20 0.09 down from 2022 | 120 | 53% | — | ||
11The British Journal for the History of ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 1.18 0.09 down from 2022 | 104 | 68% | $3,550 | ||
12History & Philosophy of the Life SciencesSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.05Q2 | 1.90 0.02 up from 2022 | 231 | 52% | $2,190 | ||
13Biological TheorySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 2.04 0.37 up from 2022 | 81 | 69% | $3,290 | ||
14BJHS ThemesOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 0.40 2.01 down from 2022 | 40 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
15OsirisUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 0.98Q3 | 1.31 0.36 down from 2022 | 46 | 14% | — | ||
16IsisUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 0.90Q3 | 0.94 0.17 up from 2022 | 176 | 10% | — | ||
17Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied SciencesOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.90Q3 | 0.94 0.69 up from 2022 | 133 | 18% | $4,448 | ||
| 0.85Q3 | —no 2022 value | 57 | — | $2,420 | |||
19CentaurusWiley · Belgium | 0.84Q3 | 0.91 0.11 down from 2022 | 151 | 90% | $2,500 | ||
20Bulletin of the history of medicineJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 0.83Q3 | 0.64 0.07 up from 2022 | 212 | 7% | — | ||
21ConfigurationsJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 0.61Q3 | 0.53 0.39 up from 2022 | 84 | 7% | — | ||
22THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of ScienceOAUniversity of the Basque Country · Spain | 0.60Q4 | 0.74 0.10 down from 2022 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
23Foundations of ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.53Q4 | 0.97 0.08 up from 2022 | 231 | 73% | $2,390 | ||
24Journal of the History of BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.50Q4 | 0.65 0.15 down from 2022 | 93 | 37% | $3,090 | ||
25Technology and CultureJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 0.39Q4 | 0.18 0.21 down from 2022 | 558 | 5% | — | ||
26Environment and HistoryUnited Kingdom | 0.30Q4 | 0.26 0.18 down from 2022 | 118 | 10% | — | ||
27Social History of MedicineOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.20Q4 | 0.16 0.03 up from 2022 | 293 | 25% | $3,864 | ||
28Filozoficzne Aspekty GenezyOAPoland | 0.03Q4 | 0.06 0.07 down from 2022 | 182 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with History and Philosophy of Science highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics164
- Philosophy95
- Literature and Literary Theory73
- Archeology72
- Music33
- History and Philosophy of Science28
- Conservation23
- Museology23
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts20
- History5
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
3 additional History and Philosophy of Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 28
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,590 -5.7% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.981 -0.2% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 20 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 27 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 13,164 | 14,084 | 14,938 | 15,820 | 16,468 | 17,489 | 18,503 | 19,361 | 20,374 | 21,585 | 23,214 | 24,241 | 24,944 | 25,411 | 26,253 | 27,298 | 28,143 | 29,168 | 29,718 | 30,514 | 31,382 | 31,648 | 31,207 | 29,590 | 28,275 | 26,958 | |
| Median OJR | 0.57 | 0.47 | 0.820 | 0.65 | 0.43 | 0.58 | 0.77 | 0.78 | 1.06 | 0.824 | 0.72 | 0.63 | 0.80 | 0.71 | 0.984 | 0.94 | 0.91 | 0.83 | 1.11 | 1.08 | 0.98329 | 0.92 | 0.98327 | 0.981 | 0.84 | 0.73 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.