Science in Context

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SCImago
Q3
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
0.5
SJR
0.158
Categories
History and Philosophy of Science
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
Years of issue
1987-1989, 1991-2021, 2024-2025
journal names
Science in Context
Publications
908
Citations
9 289
h-index
42
Publications
81
Citations
2 850
Top-3 citing journals
Isis
Isis (312 citations)
Science in Context
Science in Context (262 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Vienna
University of Vienna (3 publications)
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (2 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (213 publications)
Germany (102 publications)
Israel (90 publications)
Germany (11 publications)
Austria (4 publications)
France (4 publications)
Top-1 researchers by articles count

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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Isis
312 citations, 3.36%
Science in Context
262 citations, 2.82%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
176 citations, 1.89%
Social Studies of Science
113 citations, 1.22%
British Journal for the History of Science
97 citations, 1.04%
History of the Human Sciences
90 citations, 0.97%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
88 citations, 0.95%
SSRN Electronic Journal
72 citations, 0.78%
History of Political Economy
66 citations, 0.71%
Perspectives on Science
66 citations, 0.71%
Historia Mathematica
64 citations, 0.69%
Synthese
62 citations, 0.67%
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
60 citations, 0.65%
Journal of the History of Biology
56 citations, 0.6%
Centaurus
55 citations, 0.59%
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
51 citations, 0.55%
Science Technology and Human Values
51 citations, 0.55%
The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research
48 citations, 0.52%
History of Science
47 citations, 0.51%
Science and Education
46 citations, 0.5%
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
41 citations, 0.44%
Characterizing the Robustness of Science
41 citations, 0.44%
Osiris
40 citations, 0.43%
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
37 citations, 0.4%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
35 citations, 0.38%
BioSocieties
34 citations, 0.37%
Economic History Review
30 citations, 0.32%
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
30 citations, 0.32%
Philosophy of Science
29 citations, 0.31%
Science as Culture
28 citations, 0.3%
Accounting, Organizations and Society
27 citations, 0.29%
Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
27 citations, 0.29%
Historiographies of Science
27 citations, 0.29%
Social Science and Medicine
26 citations, 0.28%
Theory and Psychology
26 citations, 0.28%
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
25 citations, 0.27%
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
24 citations, 0.26%
Trends in the History of Science
22 citations, 0.24%
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
22 citations, 0.24%
NTM International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine
22 citations, 0.24%
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
21 citations, 0.23%
Studia Historiae Scientiarum
21 citations, 0.23%
History of Psychology
20 citations, 0.22%
Journal of Economic Methodology
20 citations, 0.22%
Endeavour
20 citations, 0.22%
Minerva
19 citations, 0.2%
Social Epistemology
19 citations, 0.2%
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
18 citations, 0.19%
Public Understanding of Science
18 citations, 0.19%
Intellectual History Review
18 citations, 0.19%
History of Psychiatry
18 citations, 0.19%
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
18 citations, 0.19%
East Asian Science, Technology and Society
18 citations, 0.19%
Philosophia Scientiae
17 citations, 0.18%
Psychoanalysis and History
17 citations, 0.18%
Frontiers in Psychology
16 citations, 0.17%
Medical History
16 citations, 0.17%
Theory, Culture and Society
16 citations, 0.17%
Foundations of Chemistry
15 citations, 0.16%
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
15 citations, 0.16%
History and Technology
14 citations, 0.15%
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
14 citations, 0.15%
Foundations of Science
14 citations, 0.15%
Progress in Human Geography
14 citations, 0.15%
Scientometrics
14 citations, 0.15%
Topoi
14 citations, 0.15%
PLoS ONE
14 citations, 0.15%
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
13 citations, 0.14%
Modern Intellectual History
13 citations, 0.14%
HOPOS
12 citations, 0.13%
Physics in Perspective
12 citations, 0.13%
Environment and Planning A
12 citations, 0.13%
Organization
11 citations, 0.12%
Environmental Science and Policy
11 citations, 0.12%
Annales: Economies, Societies, Civilsations
11 citations, 0.12%
Archives of Natural History
11 citations, 0.12%
Progress in Brain Research
11 citations, 0.12%
Sociology of Health and Illness
11 citations, 0.12%
History Compass
11 citations, 0.12%
New Genetics and Society
11 citations, 0.12%
British Journal for the History of Mathematics
10 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Genetic Counseling
10 citations, 0.11%
History of Humanities
10 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Modern History
10 citations, 0.11%
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
10 citations, 0.11%
Mathematical Intelligencer
10 citations, 0.11%
Religions
10 citations, 0.11%
Aleph
10 citations, 0.11%
Biological Theory
10 citations, 0.11%
Big Data and Society
9 citations, 0.1%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
9 citations, 0.1%
Health (United Kingdom)
9 citations, 0.1%
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
9 citations, 0.1%
Distinktion
9 citations, 0.1%
Organization Studies
9 citations, 0.1%
Economy and Society
9 citations, 0.1%
Enterprise and Society
8 citations, 0.09%
Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
8 citations, 0.09%
Revue de synthese / Centre international de synthese
8 citations, 0.09%
Historical Journal
8 citations, 0.09%
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Citing publishers

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Springer Nature
1449 citations, 15.6%
Cambridge University Press
1305 citations, 14.05%
Elsevier
803 citations, 8.64%
SAGE
702 citations, 7.56%
Taylor & Francis
643 citations, 6.92%
Wiley
512 citations, 5.51%
University of Chicago Press
480 citations, 5.17%
Duke University Press
181 citations, 1.95%
Oxford University Press
119 citations, 1.28%
MDPI
81 citations, 0.87%
MIT Press
79 citations, 0.85%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
68 citations, 0.73%
CAIRN
54 citations, 0.58%
Walter de Gruyter
50 citations, 0.54%
Emerald
48 citations, 0.52%
OpenEdition
47 citations, 0.51%
Frontiers Media S.A.
45 citations, 0.48%
Edinburgh University Press
36 citations, 0.39%
American Psychological Association (APA)
35 citations, 0.38%
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
26 citations, 0.28%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
25 citations, 0.27%
IGI Global
20 citations, 0.22%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
19 citations, 0.2%
Numdam (Numerisation de Documents Anciens Mathematiques)
19 citations, 0.2%
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
18 citations, 0.19%
SciELO
17 citations, 0.18%
Annual Reviews
15 citations, 0.16%
University of California Press
14 citations, 0.15%
The Royal Society
14 citations, 0.15%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
14 citations, 0.15%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
14 citations, 0.15%
BMJ
13 citations, 0.14%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
12 citations, 0.13%
Indiana University Press
11 citations, 0.12%
IOP Publishing
10 citations, 0.11%
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences,Commission on the History of Science
9 citations, 0.1%
Consortium Erudit
8 citations, 0.09%
Brill
7 citations, 0.08%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
7 citations, 0.08%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
7 citations, 0.08%
Cellule MathDoc/Centre Mersenne
7 citations, 0.08%
Mary Ann Liebert
6 citations, 0.06%
American Physical Society (APS)
6 citations, 0.06%
Copernicus
6 citations, 0.06%
S. Karger AG
6 citations, 0.06%
EDP Sciences
5 citations, 0.05%
Ubiquity Press
5 citations, 0.05%
Pleiades Publishing
4 citations, 0.04%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
4 citations, 0.04%
4 citations, 0.04%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
4 citations, 0.04%
AIP Publishing
4 citations, 0.04%
Groupe detude et de recherche en anglais de specialite
4 citations, 0.04%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
4 citations, 0.04%
Berghahn Books
4 citations, 0.04%
World Scientific
3 citations, 0.03%
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
3 citations, 0.03%
American Mathematical Society
3 citations, 0.03%
Mathematical Association of America
3 citations, 0.03%
Linkoping University Electronic Press
3 citations, 0.03%
Academy of Management
3 citations, 0.03%
Editora Universidade de Brasilia
3 citations, 0.03%
3 citations, 0.03%
American Economic Association
3 citations, 0.03%
Seismological Society of America (SSA)
3 citations, 0.03%
Sirey
3 citations, 0.03%
Moscow Polytechnic University
3 citations, 0.03%
Nucleo de Comunicacao, Fundacao UNI
3 citations, 0.03%
Geological Society of London
3 citations, 0.03%
F1000 Research
3 citations, 0.03%
American Educational Research Association
3 citations, 0.03%
Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID)
3 citations, 0.03%
Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)
3 citations, 0.03%
2 citations, 0.02%
Trans Tech Publications
2 citations, 0.02%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
2 citations, 0.02%
American Society for Microbiology
2 citations, 0.02%
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
2 citations, 0.02%
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2 citations, 0.02%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2 citations, 0.02%
American Accounting Association
2 citations, 0.02%
2 citations, 0.02%
Index Copernicus
2 citations, 0.02%
Pensoft Publishers
2 citations, 0.02%
2 citations, 0.02%
Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG)
2 citations, 0.02%
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
2 citations, 0.02%
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
2 citations, 0.02%
2 citations, 0.02%
Association Centre Sevres
2 citations, 0.02%
Associacao Universitaria de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental
2 citations, 0.02%
eLife Sciences Publications
2 citations, 0.02%
Departamento de Psicologia, Universidade de Brasilia
2 citations, 0.02%
Akademiai Kiado
2 citations, 0.02%
PERSEE Program
2 citations, 0.02%
JSTOR
2 citations, 0.02%
National Library of Serbia
2 citations, 0.02%
Project MUSE
2 citations, 0.02%
Scientific Research Publishing
2 citations, 0.02%
IntechOpen
2 citations, 0.02%
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Tel Aviv University
52 publications, 5.73%
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
31 publications, 3.41%
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
25 publications, 2.75%
Harvard University
18 publications, 1.98%
Humboldt University of Berlin
14 publications, 1.54%
University of Cambridge
13 publications, 1.43%
University of Pennsylvania
13 publications, 1.43%
ETH Zurich
11 publications, 1.21%
Columbia University
10 publications, 1.1%
University of Oslo
9 publications, 0.99%
University of Chicago
8 publications, 0.88%
University of Edinburgh
7 publications, 0.77%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7 publications, 0.77%
Stanford University
7 publications, 0.77%
University of California, Los Angeles
7 publications, 0.77%
Johns Hopkins University
6 publications, 0.66%
Boston University
6 publications, 0.66%
University of California, Berkeley
6 publications, 0.66%
University of California, San Diego
6 publications, 0.66%
Bielefeld University
6 publications, 0.66%
Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
5 publications, 0.55%
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
5 publications, 0.55%
University of Haifa
5 publications, 0.55%
University of Zurich
5 publications, 0.55%
Autonomous University of Barcelona
5 publications, 0.55%
University of Lucerne
5 publications, 0.55%
Maastricht University
5 publications, 0.55%
University of Göttingen
5 publications, 0.55%
Ege University
4 publications, 0.44%
University of Lorraine
4 publications, 0.44%
University of Oxford
4 publications, 0.44%
University of Cagliari
4 publications, 0.44%
University of Agder
4 publications, 0.44%
University of Notre Dame
4 publications, 0.44%
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
4 publications, 0.44%
McGill University
4 publications, 0.44%
University of Minnesota
4 publications, 0.44%
University of Amsterdam
4 publications, 0.44%
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
4 publications, 0.44%
Bar-Ilan University
3 publications, 0.33%
Ghent University
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Lisbon
3 publications, 0.33%
Uppsala University
3 publications, 0.33%
Heidelberg University
3 publications, 0.33%
Sapienza University of Rome
3 publications, 0.33%
Imperial College London
3 publications, 0.33%
University College London
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Copenhagen
3 publications, 0.33%
Sorbonne University
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Manchester
3 publications, 0.33%
London School of Economics and Political Science
3 publications, 0.33%
Yale University
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Sydney
3 publications, 0.33%
Northwestern University
3 publications, 0.33%
Duke University
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Washington
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Arizona
3 publications, 0.33%
National University of General San Martín
3 publications, 0.33%
Paris Cité University
3 publications, 0.33%
Universidad de Sevilla
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Duisburg-Essen
3 publications, 0.33%
Justus Liebig University Giessen
3 publications, 0.33%
Goethe University Frankfurt
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Mannheim
3 publications, 0.33%
Brown University
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Groningen
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Vienna
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Maryland, College Park
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Exeter
3 publications, 0.33%
University of Iowa
3 publications, 0.33%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2 publications, 0.22%
Lund University
2 publications, 0.22%
Radboud University Nijmegen
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Bordeaux
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Lausanne
2 publications, 0.22%
Oxford Brookes University
2 publications, 0.22%
Aarhus University
2 publications, 0.22%
Roskilde University
2 publications, 0.22%
William Marsh Rice University
2 publications, 0.22%
National University of Singapore
2 publications, 0.22%
Cornell University
2 publications, 0.22%
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
2 publications, 0.22%
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Glasgow
2 publications, 0.22%
Roma Tre University
2 publications, 0.22%
University of Melbourne
2 publications, 0.22%
Griffith University
2 publications, 0.22%
Seoul National University
2 publications, 0.22%
North Carolina State University
2 publications, 0.22%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2 publications, 0.22%
New York University
2 publications, 0.22%
Ohio State University
2 publications, 0.22%
Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest)
2 publications, 0.22%
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2 publications, 0.22%
Lancaster University
2 publications, 0.22%
Institut Universitaire de France
2 publications, 0.22%
Ruhr University Bochum
2 publications, 0.22%
Hamburg University
2 publications, 0.22%
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2 publications, 0.22%
Utrecht University
2 publications, 0.22%
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University of Vienna
3 publications, 3.7%
Tel Aviv University
2 publications, 2.47%
Humboldt University of Berlin
2 publications, 2.47%
London School of Economics and Political Science
2 publications, 2.47%
University of Agder
2 publications, 2.47%
Zhejiang University
1 publication, 1.23%
Lund University
1 publication, 1.23%
Chalmers University of Technology
1 publication, 1.23%
Heidelberg University
1 publication, 1.23%
ETH Zurich
1 publication, 1.23%
University of Lausanne
1 publication, 1.23%
Sun Yat-sen University
1 publication, 1.23%
Autonomous University of Barcelona
1 publication, 1.23%
University of Copenhagen
1 publication, 1.23%
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
1 publication, 1.23%
University of Bari Aldo Moro
1 publication, 1.23%
Columbia University
1 publication, 1.23%
Seoul National University
1 publication, 1.23%
Virginia Tech
1 publication, 1.23%
University of California, Los Angeles
1 publication, 1.23%
Northern Arizona University
1 publication, 1.23%
Loyola Marymount University
1 publication, 1.23%
Kyoto University of the Arts
1 publication, 1.23%
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1 publication, 1.23%
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
1 publication, 1.23%
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1 publication, 1.23%
Eastern Michigan University
1 publication, 1.23%
Graz University of Technology
1 publication, 1.23%
Ruhr University Bochum
1 publication, 1.23%
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
1 publication, 1.23%
Justus Liebig University Giessen
1 publication, 1.23%
Saarland University
1 publication, 1.23%
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
1 publication, 1.23%
University of Konstanz
1 publication, 1.23%
University of Groningen
1 publication, 1.23%
University of Erfurt
1 publication, 1.23%
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
1 publication, 1.23%
University of Sheffield
1 publication, 1.23%
Erasmus University Rotterdam
1 publication, 1.23%
Université de Lille
1 publication, 1.23%
Maynooth University
1 publication, 1.23%
University of Galway
1 publication, 1.23%
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
1 publication, 1.23%
University of Artois
1 publication, 1.23%
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USA, 213, 23.46%
USA
213 publications, 23.46%
Germany, 102, 11.23%
Germany
102 publications, 11.23%
Israel, 90, 9.91%
Israel
90 publications, 9.91%
United Kingdom, 59, 6.5%
United Kingdom
59 publications, 6.5%
France, 36, 3.96%
France
36 publications, 3.96%
Italy, 28, 3.08%
Italy
28 publications, 3.08%
Switzerland, 23, 2.53%
Switzerland
23 publications, 2.53%
Netherlands, 21, 2.31%
Netherlands
21 publications, 2.31%
Norway, 15, 1.65%
Norway
15 publications, 1.65%
Canada, 14, 1.54%
Canada
14 publications, 1.54%
Spain, 11, 1.21%
Spain
11 publications, 1.21%
Russia, 10, 1.1%
Russia
10 publications, 1.1%
Australia, 9, 0.99%
Australia
9 publications, 0.99%
Sweden, 9, 0.99%
Sweden
9 publications, 0.99%
Belgium, 8, 0.88%
Belgium
8 publications, 0.88%
Austria, 7, 0.77%
Austria
7 publications, 0.77%
Denmark, 7, 0.77%
Denmark
7 publications, 0.77%
China, 6, 0.66%
China
6 publications, 0.66%
Argentina, 5, 0.55%
Argentina
5 publications, 0.55%
Brazil, 4, 0.44%
Brazil
4 publications, 0.44%
Turkey, 4, 0.44%
Turkey
4 publications, 0.44%
Japan, 4, 0.44%
Japan
4 publications, 0.44%
Portugal, 3, 0.33%
Portugal
3 publications, 0.33%
Hungary, 3, 0.33%
Hungary
3 publications, 0.33%
Iran, 3, 0.33%
Iran
3 publications, 0.33%
Mexico, 3, 0.33%
Mexico
3 publications, 0.33%
Greece, 2, 0.22%
Greece
2 publications, 0.22%
Poland, 2, 0.22%
Poland
2 publications, 0.22%
Republic of Korea, 2, 0.22%
Republic of Korea
2 publications, 0.22%
Singapore, 2, 0.22%
Singapore
2 publications, 0.22%
USSR, 2, 0.22%
USSR
2 publications, 0.22%
Ireland, 1, 0.11%
Ireland
1 publication, 0.11%
Colombia, 1, 0.11%
Colombia
1 publication, 0.11%
Uruguay, 1, 0.11%
Uruguay
1 publication, 0.11%
Finland, 1, 0.11%
Finland
1 publication, 0.11%
Montenegro, 1, 0.11%
Montenegro
1 publication, 0.11%
Chile, 1, 0.11%
Chile
1 publication, 0.11%
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Germany, 11, 13.58%
Germany
11 publications, 13.58%
France, 4, 4.94%
France
4 publications, 4.94%
Austria, 4, 4.94%
Austria
4 publications, 4.94%
USA, 3, 3.7%
USA
3 publications, 3.7%
United Kingdom, 3, 3.7%
United Kingdom
3 publications, 3.7%
China, 2, 2.47%
China
2 publications, 2.47%
Belgium, 2, 2.47%
Belgium
2 publications, 2.47%
Israel, 2, 2.47%
Israel
2 publications, 2.47%
Norway, 2, 2.47%
Norway
2 publications, 2.47%
Switzerland, 2, 2.47%
Switzerland
2 publications, 2.47%
Sweden, 2, 2.47%
Sweden
2 publications, 2.47%
Denmark, 1, 1.23%
Denmark
1 publication, 1.23%
Spain, 1, 1.23%
Spain
1 publication, 1.23%
Italy, 1, 1.23%
Italy
1 publication, 1.23%
Canada, 1, 1.23%
Canada
1 publication, 1.23%
Republic of Korea, 1, 1.23%
Republic of Korea
1 publication, 1.23%
Japan, 1, 1.23%
Japan
1 publication, 1.23%
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