List of scientific journals

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, and contains the most influential, currently publishing journals in each field. As a rule of thumb, each field should be represented by more or less 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

* "Nature"
* "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society"
* "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (PNAS)
* "Proceedings of the Royal Society"
* "Science"

Basic & physical sciences

Astronomy and astrophysics

* "Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics"
* "Astronomical Journal"
* "Astrophysical Journal"
* "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society"
* "Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific"

Chemistry

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 [ http://scientific.thomson.com/products/jcr/ A search of 2004 "Journal Citation Reports" from the Institute for Scientific Information for journals in subject categories CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY. Journals that clearly did not publish papers in all areras of chemistry were removed. ] . The comprehensive list referenced above should be consulted for high ranking journals in specific areas of chemistry.

* "Accounts of Chemical Research"
* "Angewandte Chemie International Edition"
* "Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan"
* "Canadian Journal of Chemistry"
* "Chemical Communications"
* "Chemical Reviews"
* ""
* "Chemistry Letters"
* "Journal of the American Chemical Society"
* "Helvetica Chimica Acta"

Earth and atmospheric sciences

* "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics"
* "Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society"
* "Earth Interactions"
* "Eos"
* "Geophysical Research Letters"
* "International Journal of Speleology"
* "Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology"
* "Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences"
* "Journal of Climate"
* "Journal of Geophysical Research"
* "Journal of the IEST"
* "Journal of Physical Oceanography"
* "Journal of Soil and Water Conservation"
* "National Weather Digest"
* "Weather"
* "Weather and Forecasting"
* "Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften (Journal for the Geological Sciences)"

Physics

* "Advances in Physics"
* "American Journal of Physics"
* "Central European Journal of Physics"
* "Journal of Physics" - parts A-D, G
* "Physical Review" - parts A-E and "Letters"
* "Reports on Progress in Physics"

Life sciences

Biology in general

* "American Naturalist"
* "Biological Reviews"
* "BioEssays"
* "Cell"
* "Central European Journal of Biology" [http://versita.com/science/lifesciences/cejb/ (journal home)]
* "International Journal of Biological Sciences"
* "Journal of Theoretical Biology"
* "PLoS Biology"
* "PLoS ONE"

Agriculture

* "Australian Journal of Agricultural Research"
* "Journal of Animal Science"
* "Journal of Soil and Water Conservation"

Biophysics and biochemistry

* "Biochemical Journal"
* "Biophysical Journal"
* "European Journal of Biochemistry"
* "FEBS Journal"
* "Journal of Biological Chemistry"
* "Journal of Molecular Biology"
* "Xenobiotica"

Ecology

* "Advances in Ecological Research"
* "Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics"
* "Ecology"
* "Ecology Letters"
* "Journal of Ecology"
* "Journal of Soil and Water Conservation"
* "Trends in Ecology & Evolution"

Genetics

* "Genetics (journal)
* "Heredity (journal)
* "Journal of Genetics
* "Theoretical and Applied Genetics"

Horticulture

* "Journal of Applied Horticulture"

Neuroscience

* "Behavioral and Brain Sciences"
* "Genes, Brain and Behavior"
* "Journal of Neuroscience"
* "Nature Neuroscience"
* "Neuron"
* "Trends in Neurosciences"

Medicine

* "Annals of Internal Medicine"
* "Archives of Internal Medicine"
* "British Medical Journal"
* "International Journal of Medical Sciences"
* "Molecular Medicine"
* "Journal of the American Medical Association"
* "Journal of Clinical Investigation"
* "Journal of Experimental Medicine"
* "The Lancet"
* "Nature Medicine"
* "New England Journal of Medicine"
* "PLoS Medicine"
* "PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases"

Pharmaceutical Sciences

* "Phytotherapy Research"

Mathematics and applied sciences

Computer science

* "Journal of the ACM (JACM)"
* "Communications of the ACM (CACM)"
* "Computing Reviews (ACM)"
* "IEEE Transactions on Computers"
* "International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems"
* "Journal of Machine Learning Research"
* "Journal of Functional Programming"
* "SIAM Journal on Computing" [
* "Computer (IEEE magazine)"

:"For more comprehensive lists, see" [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/index-s.html DB&LP] , [http://elib.cs.sfu.ca/Collections/CMPT/cs-journals/ Simon Fraser University Project (not maintained)] .

Engineering

* "Advances in Production Engineering & Management"
* "Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering"
* "Fluid Phase Equilibria"
* "Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research"
* "Journal of Environmental Engineering"
* "Journal of Hydrologic Engineering"
* "Journal of the IEST"
* "NASA Tech Briefs"
* "Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal"

Materials science

* "Advanced Materials"
* "Advanced Functional Materials"
* "JOM"
* "Journal of Electronic Materials" ]
* "Materials Today"
* "Metallurgical and Materials Transactions"
* "Nature Materials"

Mathematics

* "Acta Mathematica"
* "Annals of Mathematics"
* "Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society"
* "Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics"
* "Duke Mathematical Journal"
* "Inventiones Mathematicae"
* "Journal of the American Mathematical Society"
* "Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS"

Statistics

*"Journal of the American Statistical Association"
*"The American Statistician"
*"Biometrics (Journal)"
*"Biometrika"
*"Journal of Business & Economic Statistics"
*"Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization"
*"International Journal of Intelligent Technologies and Applied Statistics"
*"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society"
*"Statistical Science"
*"Journal of Statistical Software"
*"Technology Innovations in Statistics Education"
*"Technometrics"

See also

* Google Scholar
* List of academic journals
* List of journals available free online
* List of academic databases and search engines
* Open access journals
* List of science magazines of popular and non peer-reviewed kind

External links

* IEEE [http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=corp_level1&path=pubs/transactions&file=index.xml&xsl=generic.xsl Transactions Journals and Letters Listings]
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* ScienceDirect [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals List of academic journals]
* [http://gort.ucsd.edu/ejourn/jdir.html#lists Directories and Lists of Electronic Journals and Newsletters]
* [http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web]
* [http://www.ekolojinet.com/journals.html Scientific Journals publishing papers on ecology]
* [http://pubs.acs.org The journals of the American Chemical Society]

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