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Impact factor
1
SJR
0.272
CiteScore
1.0
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
21 686
Citations
35 287
h-index
66
Publications
1 064
Citations
9 240
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 countries
USA (198 publications)
Germany (82 publications)
United Kingdom (62 publications)
Germany (11 publications)
USA (2 publications)
United Kingdom (1 publication)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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Isis
2798 citations, 7.93%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
674 citations, 1.91%
British Journal for the History of Science
571 citations, 1.62%
Journal of the History of Biology
404 citations, 1.14%
SSRN Electronic Journal
394 citations, 1.12%
Science in Context
362 citations, 1.03%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
330 citations, 0.94%
Centaurus
301 citations, 0.85%
History of Science
296 citations, 0.84%
Characterizing the Robustness of Science
234 citations, 0.66%
Annals of Science
205 citations, 0.58%
Historiographies of Science
203 citations, 0.58%
Perspectives on Science
202 citations, 0.57%
Social Studies of Science
201 citations, 0.57%
Osiris
193 citations, 0.55%
Historia Mathematica
181 citations, 0.51%
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
180 citations, 0.51%
Science and Education
168 citations, 0.48%
History and Technology
150 citations, 0.43%
History of the Human Sciences
148 citations, 0.42%
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
147 citations, 0.42%
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
133 citations, 0.38%
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
131 citations, 0.37%
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
121 citations, 0.34%
Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
117 citations, 0.33%
Archives of Natural History
113 citations, 0.32%
History of Mechanism and Machine Science
107 citations, 0.3%
Journal for the History of Astronomy
106 citations, 0.3%
History of Political Economy
99 citations, 0.28%
Scientometrics
97 citations, 0.27%
Synthese
82 citations, 0.23%
Minerva
81 citations, 0.23%
Ambix
70 citations, 0.2%
HOPOS
70 citations, 0.2%
Science Technology and Human Values
69 citations, 0.2%
East Asian Science, Technology and Society
69 citations, 0.2%
NTM International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine
69 citations, 0.2%
Endeavour
68 citations, 0.19%
Zygon
66 citations, 0.19%
Intellectual History Review
64 citations, 0.18%
Science
62 citations, 0.18%
Science as Culture
58 citations, 0.16%
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
58 citations, 0.16%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
57 citations, 0.16%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
57 citations, 0.16%
Progress in Human Geography
53 citations, 0.15%
Research Policy
51 citations, 0.14%
History of Humanities
50 citations, 0.14%
Biology and Philosophy
50 citations, 0.14%
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
50 citations, 0.14%
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
49 citations, 0.14%
Physics in Perspective
47 citations, 0.13%
The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research
46 citations, 0.13%
Theory and Psychology
45 citations, 0.13%
American Journal of Physics
44 citations, 0.12%
Foundations of Chemistry
44 citations, 0.12%
BJHS Themes
44 citations, 0.12%
Geological Society Special Publication
43 citations, 0.12%
Environmental History
42 citations, 0.12%
Foundations of Science
41 citations, 0.12%
Historical Journal
41 citations, 0.12%
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
41 citations, 0.12%
Vistas in Astronomy
41 citations, 0.12%
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
41 citations, 0.12%
Public Understanding of Science
40 citations, 0.11%
Trends in the History of Science
39 citations, 0.11%
History Compass
39 citations, 0.11%
Economic History Review
38 citations, 0.11%
PLoS ONE
38 citations, 0.11%
Renaissance Quarterly
37 citations, 0.1%
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
37 citations, 0.1%
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
36 citations, 0.1%
Nature
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, 0.1%
Modern Intellectual History
33 citations, 0.09%
Medical History
32 citations, 0.09%
Physics Today
32 citations, 0.09%
Histories
32 citations, 0.09%
Mathematical Intelligencer
31 citations, 0.09%
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
30 citations, 0.09%
Social Epistemology
30 citations, 0.09%
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
29 citations, 0.08%
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
29 citations, 0.08%
Physics Education
29 citations, 0.08%
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
29 citations, 0.08%
Science Networks. Historical Studies
29 citations, 0.08%
Global Intellectual History
29 citations, 0.08%
Social Science Information
28 citations, 0.08%
History of Psychiatry
27 citations, 0.08%
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
26 citations, 0.07%
European Journal of Physics
26 citations, 0.07%
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
26 citations, 0.07%
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
26 citations, 0.07%
Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory
26 citations, 0.07%
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
25 citations, 0.07%
BioSocieties
25 citations, 0.07%
Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Fisica
24 citations, 0.07%
Social History of Medicine
24 citations, 0.07%
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Citing publishers

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Springer Nature
4343 citations, 12.31%
Cambridge University Press
3660 citations, 10.37%
University of Chicago Press
3350 citations, 9.49%
Elsevier
2591 citations, 7.34%
Wiley
2116 citations, 6%
Taylor & Francis
2104 citations, 5.96%
SAGE
1676 citations, 4.75%
Oxford University Press
602 citations, 1.71%
Duke University Press
410 citations, 1.16%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
392 citations, 1.11%
MDPI
275 citations, 0.78%
MIT Press
250 citations, 0.71%
Edinburgh University Press
151 citations, 0.43%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
132 citations, 0.37%
Emerald
126 citations, 0.36%
OpenEdition
114 citations, 0.32%
IOP Publishing
112 citations, 0.32%
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
111 citations, 0.31%
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences,Commission on the History of Science
111 citations, 0.31%
Walter de Gruyter
106 citations, 0.3%
Frontiers Media S.A.
96 citations, 0.27%
SciELO
94 citations, 0.27%
CAIRN
91 citations, 0.26%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
71 citations, 0.2%
The Royal Society
66 citations, 0.19%
AIP Publishing
58 citations, 0.16%
University of California Press
51 citations, 0.14%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
49 citations, 0.14%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
48 citations, 0.14%
Geological Society of London
48 citations, 0.14%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
47 citations, 0.13%
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
46 citations, 0.13%
Brill
42 citations, 0.12%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
40 citations, 0.11%
Annual Reviews
37 citations, 0.1%
Japan Institute of Metals
36 citations, 0.1%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
32 citations, 0.09%
Mathematical Association of America
31 citations, 0.09%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
30 citations, 0.09%
BMJ
30 citations, 0.09%
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
28 citations, 0.08%
Optica Publishing Group
27 citations, 0.08%
Copernicus
26 citations, 0.07%
IGI Global
25 citations, 0.07%
American Physical Society (APS)
24 citations, 0.07%
Consortium Erudit
24 citations, 0.07%
EDP Sciences
23 citations, 0.07%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
20 citations, 0.06%
Mary Ann Liebert
19 citations, 0.05%
American Psychological Association (APA)
18 citations, 0.05%
Ubiquity Press
18 citations, 0.05%
American Physiological Society
17 citations, 0.05%
University of Illinois Press
17 citations, 0.05%
16 citations, 0.05%
Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
16 citations, 0.05%
Numdam (Numerisation de Documents Anciens Mathematiques)
16 citations, 0.05%
16 citations, 0.05%
American Geophysical Union
16 citations, 0.05%
Pleiades Publishing
15 citations, 0.04%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
15 citations, 0.04%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
15 citations, 0.04%
Pensoft Publishers
14 citations, 0.04%
Trans Tech Publications
13 citations, 0.04%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
13 citations, 0.04%
Scientific Research Publishing
13 citations, 0.04%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
13 citations, 0.04%
JSTOR
12 citations, 0.03%
Intellect
12 citations, 0.03%
Indiana University Press
11 citations, 0.03%
Hindawi Limited
11 citations, 0.03%
Berghahn Books
11 citations, 0.03%
World Scientific
10 citations, 0.03%
Massachusetts Medical Society
10 citations, 0.03%
Agricultural History Society
10 citations, 0.03%
Japan Society of Civil Engineers
10 citations, 0.03%
CSIRO Publishing
10 citations, 0.03%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
10 citations, 0.03%
Hans Publishers
10 citations, 0.03%
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
9 citations, 0.03%
Editorial CSIC
9 citations, 0.03%
8 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
8 citations, 0.02%
University of Warsaw
8 citations, 0.02%
AOSIS
8 citations, 0.02%
Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS)
8 citations, 0.02%
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
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%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
7 citations, 0.02%
American Astronomical Society
7 citations, 0.02%
Equinox Publishing
7 citations, 0.02%
National Association of Biology Teachers
6 citations, 0.02%
American Meteorological Society
6 citations, 0.02%
Magnolia Press
6 citations, 0.02%
Geologists' Association
6 citations, 0.02%
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Oriental Scientific Publishing Company
6 citations, 0.02%
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
73 publications, 0.34%
Harvard University
20 publications, 0.09%
University of Cambridge
16 publications, 0.07%
Yale University
13 publications, 0.06%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
10 publications, 0.05%
University of Oklahoma
9 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%
Arizona State University
6 publications, 0.03%
Brown University
6 publications, 0.03%
University of California, Los Angeles
5 publications, 0.02%
University of Leeds
5 publications, 0.02%
York University
5 publications, 0.02%
Johns Hopkins University
4 publications, 0.02%
Stanford University
4 publications, 0.02%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
4 publications, 0.02%
University of California, Berkeley
4 publications, 0.02%
University of California, Davis
4 publications, 0.02%
University of Pennsylvania
4 publications, 0.02%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
3 publications, 0.01%
Columbia University
3 publications, 0.01%
Princeton University
3 publications, 0.01%
University of California, Santa Barbara
3 publications, 0.01%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
3 publications, 0.01%
Utrecht University
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Groningen
3 publications, 0.01%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
3 publications, 0.01%
National Research University Higher School of Economics
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%
Pennsylvania State University
2 publications, 0.01%
New York University
2 publications, 0.01%
Ohio State University
2 publications, 0.01%
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Texas at Austin
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Notre Dame
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Bristol
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2 publications, 0.01%
Wayne State University
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 Amsterdam
2 publications, 0.01%
University of Exeter
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%
Tel Aviv University
1 publication, 0%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1 publication, 0%
Ghent University
1 publication, 0%
Technical University of Munich
1 publication, 0%
Radboud University Nijmegen
1 publication, 0%
Humboldt University of Berlin
1 publication, 0%
University of Helsinki
1 publication, 0%
University of Geneva
1 publication, 0%
Imperial College London
1 publication, 0%
University College London
1 publication, 0%
University of Warwick
1 publication, 0%
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1 publication, 0%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 0%
King's College 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%
University of Sydney
1 publication, 0%
University of Glasgow
1 publication, 0%
Georgia Institute of technology
1 publication, 0%
California Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0%
Iowa State University
1 publication, 0%
University of Queensland
1 publication, 0%
La Trobe University
1 publication, 0%
Bond University
1 publication, 0%
Western Washington University
1 publication, 0%
Seoul National University
1 publication, 0%
Northwestern University
1 publication, 0%
Duke University
1 publication, 0%
University of Washington
1 publication, 0%
Technical University of Berlin
1 publication, 0%
Tufts University
1 publication, 0%
University of California, San Diego
1 publication, 0%
University of Arizona
1 publication, 0%
DePaul University
1 publication, 0%
Aberystwyth University
1 publication, 0%
University of Chicago
1 publication, 0%
Vanderbilt University
1 publication, 0%
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1 publication, 0%
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
1 publication, 0%
University of St Andrews
1 publication, 0%
University of Michigan
1 publication, 0%
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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
10 publications, 0.94%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.09%
Drexel University
1 publication, 0.09%
Seoul National University
1 publication, 0.09%
Harvard University
1 publication, 0.09%
University of Arizona
1 publication, 0.09%
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
1 publication, 0.09%
Mississippi State University
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, 0.29%
United Kingdom
62 publications, 0.29%
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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Publishing countries in 5 years

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Germany, 11, 1.03%
Germany
11 publications, 1.03%
USA, 2, 0.19%
USA
2 publications, 0.19%
United Kingdom, 1, 0.09%
United Kingdom
1 publication, 0.09%
Italy, 1, 0.09%
Italy
1 publication, 0.09%
Republic of Korea, 1, 0.09%
Republic of Korea
1 publication, 0.09%
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