List of scientific journals

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The following is a partial list of scientific journals. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past. The list given here is far from exhaustive, only containing some of the most influential, currently publishing journals in each field. As a rule of thumb, each field should be represented by fewer than ten positions, chosen by their impact factors and other ratings.

Note: there are many science magazines that are not scientific journals, including Scientific American, New Scientist, Australasian Science and others. They are not listed here.

For periodicals in the social sciences and humanities, see list of social science journals.

General and multidisciplinary science

See also: Category:Multidisciplinary scientific journals.

Journal	Publishing since	Impact factor (2019)	Open access
Nature	1869	42.779	No
Nature Communications	2010	12.121	Yes
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A	1905 (1665 before split)	3.275	Partial; after 2 years
PLoS One	2006	2.740	Yes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	1914	9.412	Partial; after 6 months
Proceedings of the Royal Society A	1905 (1800 before split)	2.741	Partial; by request or after 2 years
Science	1880	41.846	No
Science Advances	2015	13.117	Yes; gold
Scientific Reports	2011	3.998	Yes

Basic and physical sciences

Astronomy and astrophysics

For a more comprehensive list, see Astronomy:List of astronomy journals.

Chemistry

For a more comprehensive list, see Chemistry:List of chemistry journals.

The journals listed below are the 10 highest-ranking chemistry journals that publish papers in all areas of chemistry, ranked according to the total number of references. The comprehensive list referenced above should be consulted for high-ranking journals in specific areas of chemistry.

Earth and atmospheric sciences

For a more comprehensive list, see Earth:List of earth and atmospheric sciences journals.

Materials science

For a more comprehensive list, see Physics:List of materials science journals.

Mechanics

• Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
• Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Physics

For a more comprehensive list, see Physics:List of physics journals.

Life sciences

Biology in general

For a more comprehensive list, see Biology:List of biology journals.

Bioinformatics

See List of bioinformatics journals

Chronobiology

• Chronobiology International

Husbandry

• Rangifer

Mathematics

General mathematics

For a more comprehensive list, see List of mathematics journals.

Statistics

For a more comprehensive list, see List of statistics journals.

Other fields

Physical education

• African Journal for Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance

See also

• List of academic databases and search engines
• List of academic journals
• List of science magazines of popular and non peer-reviewed kind
• List of open access journals

External links

• Science: Publications at Curlie
• ScienceDirect List of academic journals
• Directories and Lists of Electronic Journals and Newsletters
• Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web
• Scientific Journals publishing papers on ecology
• Journals in Materials Science with Impact Factor
• Scientific Journal List with university, institute and other info