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Impact factor
0.9
SJR
0.219
CiteScore
1.1
Categories
History
History and Philosophy of Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Years of issue
1945-1963, 1965-2025
journal names
Isis
Publications
21 797
Citations
36 393
h-index
67
Publications
1 175
Citations
10 236
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 countries
USA (198 publications)
Germany (82 publications)
United Kingdom (62 publications)
Germany (5 publications)
Italy (1 publication)

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Citing journals

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Isis
2818 citations, 7.74%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
683 citations, 1.88%
British Journal for the History of Science
571 citations, 1.57%
Journal of the History of Biology
411 citations, 1.13%
SSRN Electronic Journal
397 citations, 1.09%
Science in Context
375 citations, 1.03%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
330 citations, 0.91%
Centaurus
301 citations, 0.83%
History of Science
296 citations, 0.81%
Characterizing the Robustness of Science
264 citations, 0.73%
Historiographies of Science
263 citations, 0.72%
Annals of Science
205 citations, 0.56%
Social Studies of Science
203 citations, 0.56%
Perspectives on Science
202 citations, 0.56%
Osiris
201 citations, 0.55%
Science and Education
186 citations, 0.51%
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
184 citations, 0.51%
Historia Mathematica
183 citations, 0.5%
History of the Human Sciences
157 citations, 0.43%
History and Technology
155 citations, 0.43%
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
149 citations, 0.41%
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
137 citations, 0.38%
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
132 citations, 0.36%
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
121 citations, 0.33%
Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
116 citations, 0.32%
Archives of Natural History
113 citations, 0.31%
History of Mechanism and Machine Science
107 citations, 0.29%
Journal for the History of Astronomy
106 citations, 0.29%
History of Political Economy
104 citations, 0.29%
Scientometrics
99 citations, 0.27%
Minerva
89 citations, 0.24%
Synthese
79 citations, 0.22%
HOPOS
75 citations, 0.21%
Endeavour
73 citations, 0.2%
East Asian Science, Technology and Society
72 citations, 0.2%
Science Technology and Human Values
71 citations, 0.2%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
71 citations, 0.2%
Ambix
70 citations, 0.19%
NTM International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine
70 citations, 0.19%
Intellectual History Review
67 citations, 0.18%
Zygon
66 citations, 0.18%
Science
62 citations, 0.17%
Science as Culture
58 citations, 0.16%
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
58 citations, 0.16%
The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research
58 citations, 0.16%
History of Humanities
57 citations, 0.16%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
57 citations, 0.16%
BJHS Themes
57 citations, 0.16%
Progress in Human Geography
54 citations, 0.15%
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
54 citations, 0.15%
History of Psychology
52 citations, 0.14%
Biology and Philosophy
51 citations, 0.14%
Research Policy
51 citations, 0.14%
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
49 citations, 0.13%
Physics in Perspective
48 citations, 0.13%
Foundations of Science
47 citations, 0.13%
Theory and Psychology
46 citations, 0.13%
Environmental History
45 citations, 0.12%
American Journal of Physics
44 citations, 0.12%
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
44 citations, 0.12%
Foundations of Chemistry
44 citations, 0.12%
Geological Society Special Publication
43 citations, 0.12%
Vistas in Astronomy
41 citations, 0.11%
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
41 citations, 0.11%
Historical Journal
40 citations, 0.11%
Public Understanding of Science
39 citations, 0.11%
Trends in the History of Science
39 citations, 0.11%
PLoS ONE
39 citations, 0.11%
Economic History Review
38 citations, 0.1%
History Compass
38 citations, 0.1%
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
38 citations, 0.1%
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
37 citations, 0.1%
Nature
37 citations, 0.1%
Renaissance Quarterly
37 citations, 0.1%
Medical History
36 citations, 0.1%
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
35 citations, 0.1%
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
35 citations, 0.1%
Philosophy of Science
34 citations, 0.09%
Histories
34 citations, 0.09%
Modern Intellectual History
33 citations, 0.09%
Physics Today
32 citations, 0.09%
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
32 citations, 0.09%
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
31 citations, 0.09%
Mathematical Intelligencer
31 citations, 0.09%
Science Networks. Historical Studies
31 citations, 0.09%
Global Intellectual History
31 citations, 0.09%
Metascience
31 citations, 0.09%
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
30 citations, 0.08%
Social Epistemology
30 citations, 0.08%
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
29 citations, 0.08%
Physics Education
29 citations, 0.08%
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
29 citations, 0.08%
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
29 citations, 0.08%
Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory
29 citations, 0.08%
Social Science Information
28 citations, 0.08%
History of Psychiatry
27 citations, 0.07%
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
27 citations, 0.07%
European Journal of Physics
27 citations, 0.07%
BioSocieties
26 citations, 0.07%
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
26 citations, 0.07%
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Springer Nature
4832 citations, 13.28%
Cambridge University Press
4490 citations, 12.34%
University of Chicago Press
3408 citations, 9.36%
Elsevier
2713 citations, 7.45%
Wiley
2230 citations, 6.13%
Taylor & Francis
2170 citations, 5.96%
SAGE
1737 citations, 4.77%
Oxford University Press
775 citations, 2.13%
Duke University Press
426 citations, 1.17%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
393 citations, 1.08%
MDPI
298 citations, 0.82%
MIT Press
250 citations, 0.69%
Edinburgh University Press
151 citations, 0.41%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
143 citations, 0.39%
Emerald
129 citations, 0.35%
Walter de Gruyter
117 citations, 0.32%
OpenEdition
117 citations, 0.32%
IOP Publishing
114 citations, 0.31%
American Psychological Association (APA)
114 citations, 0.31%
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
108 citations, 0.3%
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences,Commission on the History of Science
108 citations, 0.3%
SciELO
105 citations, 0.29%
CAIRN
104 citations, 0.29%
Frontiers Media S.A.
102 citations, 0.28%
University of California Press
79 citations, 0.22%
The Royal Society
72 citations, 0.2%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
71 citations, 0.2%
AIP Publishing
62 citations, 0.17%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
52 citations, 0.14%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
51 citations, 0.14%
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
50 citations, 0.14%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
49 citations, 0.13%
Geological Society of London
48 citations, 0.13%
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
47 citations, 0.13%
Brill
46 citations, 0.13%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
43 citations, 0.12%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
41 citations, 0.11%
Annual Reviews
38 citations, 0.1%
Japan Institute of Metals
36 citations, 0.1%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
35 citations, 0.1%
Mathematical Association of America
34 citations, 0.09%
BMJ
32 citations, 0.09%
IGI Global
30 citations, 0.08%
Optica Publishing Group
28 citations, 0.08%
Copernicus
27 citations, 0.07%
EDP Sciences
26 citations, 0.07%
American Physical Society (APS)
24 citations, 0.07%
Consortium Erudit
23 citations, 0.06%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
21 citations, 0.06%
Mary Ann Liebert
20 citations, 0.05%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
19 citations, 0.05%
Editorial CSIC
18 citations, 0.05%
American Physiological Society
17 citations, 0.05%
University of Illinois Press
17 citations, 0.05%
American Geophysical Union
17 citations, 0.05%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
17 citations, 0.05%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
16 citations, 0.04%
Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
16 citations, 0.04%
Numdam (Numerisation de Documents Anciens Mathematiques)
16 citations, 0.04%
Ubiquity Press
16 citations, 0.04%
Pleiades Publishing
15 citations, 0.04%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
15 citations, 0.04%
Pensoft Publishers
14 citations, 0.04%
Hindawi Limited
14 citations, 0.04%
JSTOR
14 citations, 0.04%
Trans Tech Publications
13 citations, 0.04%
13 citations, 0.04%
Scientific Research Publishing
13 citations, 0.04%
Berghahn Books
13 citations, 0.04%
World Scientific
12 citations, 0.03%
CSIRO Publishing
12 citations, 0.03%
Intellect
12 citations, 0.03%
Indiana University Press
11 citations, 0.03%
Massachusetts Medical Society
11 citations, 0.03%
Agricultural History Society
10 citations, 0.03%
Japan Society of Civil Engineers
10 citations, 0.03%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
10 citations, 0.03%
Hans Publishers
10 citations, 0.03%
University of Warsaw
9 citations, 0.02%
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
9 citations, 0.02%
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
8 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
8 citations, 0.02%
American College of Physicians
8 citations, 0.02%
American Educational Research Association
8 citations, 0.02%
IntechOpen
8 citations, 0.02%
AOSIS
8 citations, 0.02%
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
8 citations, 0.02%
Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS)
8 citations, 0.02%
7 citations, 0.02%
American Mathematical Society
7 citations, 0.02%
American Association for Clinical Chemistry
7 citations, 0.02%
International Association for Plant Taxonomy
7 citations, 0.02%
Associacao Universitaria de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental
7 citations, 0.02%
Akademiai Kiado
7 citations, 0.02%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
7 citations, 0.02%
American Astronomical Society
7 citations, 0.02%
Equinox Publishing
7 citations, 0.02%
Journal for the History of Knowledge
7 citations, 0.02%
American Society for Microbiology
6 citations, 0.02%
National Association of Biology Teachers
6 citations, 0.02%
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
76 publications, 0.35%
Harvard University
22 publications, 0.1%
University of Cambridge
17 publications, 0.08%
Yale University
14 publications, 0.06%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
10 publications, 0.05%
University of Oklahoma
9 publications, 0.04%
Brown University
8 publications, 0.04%
University of Toronto
8 publications, 0.04%
University of Manchester
7 publications, 0.03%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7 publications, 0.03%
University of California, Los Angeles
7 publications, 0.03%
Arizona State University
6 publications, 0.03%
University of Leeds
6 publications, 0.03%
Johns Hopkins University
5 publications, 0.02%
Princeton University
5 publications, 0.02%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
5 publications, 0.02%
University of California, Santa Barbara
5 publications, 0.02%
University of Pennsylvania
5 publications, 0.02%
York University
5 publications, 0.02%
Stanford University
4 publications, 0.02%
Columbia University
4 publications, 0.02%
University of California, Berkeley
4 publications, 0.02%
New York University
4 publications, 0.02%
University of California, Davis
4 publications, 0.02%
Utrecht University
4 publications, 0.02%
University of Exeter
4 publications, 0.02%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
4 publications, 0.02%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
3 publications, 0.01%
University College London
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Edinburgh
3 publications, 0.01%
University of California, Irvine
3 publications, 0.01%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Groningen
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Vienna
3 publications, 0.01%
Mississippi State University
3 publications, 0.01%
National Research University Higher School of Economics
2 publications, 0.01%
Humboldt University of Berlin
2 publications, 0.01%
University of New South Wales
2 publications, 0.01%
Queen Mary University of London
2 publications, 0.01%
Aarhus University
2 publications, 0.01%
London School of Economics and Political Science
2 publications, 0.01%
Michigan State University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Sydney
2 publications, 0.01%
Pennsylvania State University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Queensland
2 publications, 0.01%
North Carolina State University
2 publications, 0.01%
Northwestern University
2 publications, 0.01%
Ohio State University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of California, San Diego
2 publications, 0.01%
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Chicago
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Texas at Austin
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Notre Dame
2 publications, 0.01%
Vanderbilt University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Bristol
2 publications, 0.01%
Wayne State University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of St Andrews
2 publications, 0.01%
McGill University
2 publications, 0.01%
Lancaster University
2 publications, 0.01%
University of British Columbia
2 publications, 0.01%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Regensburg
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Amsterdam
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Sussex
2 publications, 0.01%
University of New Mexico
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Iowa
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Oregon
2 publications, 0.01%
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2 publications, 0.01%
California State University, Fullerton
2 publications, 0.01%
European University at St. Petersburg
1 publication, 0%
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
1 publication, 0%
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
1 publication, 0%
Tel Aviv University
1 publication, 0%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1 publication, 0%
University of Twente
1 publication, 0%
Ghent University
1 publication, 0%
Technical University of Munich
1 publication, 0%
Radboud University Nijmegen
1 publication, 0%
University of Helsinki
1 publication, 0%
Sapienza University of Rome
1 publication, 0%
University of Zurich
1 publication, 0%
University of Geneva
1 publication, 0%
Nanyang Technological University
1 publication, 0%
Imperial College London
1 publication, 0%
University of Warwick
1 publication, 0%
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 0%
Oxford Brookes University
1 publication, 0%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 0%
Shanghai University
1 publication, 0%
King's College London
1 publication, 0%
City, University of London
1 publication, 0%
Royal Holloway University of London
1 publication, 0%
Roskilde University
1 publication, 0%
Manchester Metropolitan University
1 publication, 0%
University of Nottingham
1 publication, 0%
William Marsh Rice University
1 publication, 0%
Drexel University
1 publication, 0%
Cornell University
1 publication, 0%
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
1 publication, 0%
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
7 publications, 0.6%
University of Edinburgh
3 publications, 0.26%
University of California, Irvine
3 publications, 0.26%
University of Vienna
3 publications, 0.26%
University College London
2 publications, 0.17%
Princeton University
2 publications, 0.17%
North Carolina State University
2 publications, 0.17%
Harvard University
2 publications, 0.17%
New York University
2 publications, 0.17%
University of California, Los Angeles
2 publications, 0.17%
University of California, Santa Barbara
2 publications, 0.17%
Brown University
2 publications, 0.17%
University of Exeter
2 publications, 0.17%
Mississippi State University
2 publications, 0.17%
European University at St. Petersburg
1 publication, 0.09%
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
1 publication, 0.09%
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Twente
1 publication, 0.09%
Humboldt University of Berlin
1 publication, 0.09%
Sapienza University of Rome
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Zurich
1 publication, 0.09%
Nanyang Technological University
1 publication, 0.09%
Oxford Brookes University
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.09%
Shanghai University
1 publication, 0.09%
City, University of London
1 publication, 0.09%
Royal Holloway University of London
1 publication, 0.09%
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
1 publication, 0.09%
Yale University
1 publication, 0.09%
Johns Hopkins University
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Sydney
1 publication, 0.09%
Charles University
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Queensland
1 publication, 0.09%
Columbia University
1 publication, 0.09%
Georgetown University
1 publication, 0.09%
Washington State University
1 publication, 0.09%
Northwestern University
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Hong Kong
1 publication, 0.09%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1 publication, 0.09%
University of California, San Diego
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Chicago
1 publication, 0.09%
Nagoya University
1 publication, 0.09%
Vanderbilt University
1 publication, 0.09%
Trinity College Dublin
1 publication, 0.09%
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1 publication, 0.09%
University of St Andrews
1 publication, 0.09%
Universidad de Sevilla
1 publication, 0.09%
Dartmouth College
1 publication, 0.09%
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
1 publication, 0.09%
Tilburg University
1 publication, 0.09%
Utrecht University
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Regensburg
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Leeds
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Pennsylvania
1 publication, 0.09%
Louisiana State University
1 publication, 0.09%
Singapore Management University
1 publication, 0.09%
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
1 publication, 0.09%
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USA, 198, 0.91%
USA
198 publications, 0.91%
Germany, 82, 0.38%
Germany
82 publications, 0.38%
United Kingdom, 62, 0.28%
United Kingdom
62 publications, 0.28%
Canada, 20, 0.09%
Canada
20 publications, 0.09%
Italy, 13, 0.06%
Italy
13 publications, 0.06%
Netherlands, 13, 0.06%
Netherlands
13 publications, 0.06%
Australia, 6, 0.03%
Australia
6 publications, 0.03%
France, 4, 0.02%
France
4 publications, 0.02%
Belgium, 4, 0.02%
Belgium
4 publications, 0.02%
Denmark, 3, 0.01%
Denmark
3 publications, 0.01%
Switzerland, 3, 0.01%
Switzerland
3 publications, 0.01%
Russia, 2, 0.01%
Russia
2 publications, 0.01%
China, 2, 0.01%
China
2 publications, 0.01%
Israel, 2, 0.01%
Israel
2 publications, 0.01%
Spain, 2, 0.01%
Spain
2 publications, 0.01%
Republic of Korea, 2, 0.01%
Republic of Korea
2 publications, 0.01%
Brazil, 1, 0%
Brazil
1 publication, 0%
Egypt, 1, 0%
Egypt
1 publication, 0%
India, 1, 0%
India
1 publication, 0%
Ireland, 1, 0%
Ireland
1 publication, 0%
Colombia, 1, 0%
Colombia
1 publication, 0%
Norway, 1, 0%
Norway
1 publication, 0%
Finland, 1, 0%
Finland
1 publication, 0%
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Germany, 5, 0.43%
Germany
5 publications, 0.43%
Italy, 1, 0.09%
Italy
1 publication, 0.09%
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