Journal of the History of Biology

Aims & Scope

The Journal of the History of Biology is devoted to the history of the biological sciences, with additional interest and concern in the philosophical and social issues confronting biology.

The journal invites a diversity of approaches to the history of biology, and welcomes manuscripts dealing with all chronological periods, though it pays particular attention to developments in the modern biological sciences of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The journal serves both the working biologist who needs a fuller understanding of the historical and philosophical basis of their field, as well as the historian of biology interested in the intellectual and cultural processes that shape it.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.6
2024	0.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.243

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	18884

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	60

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Dollo on Dollo's law: Irreversibility and the status of evolutionary laws

  Citation: 251

  Authors: Stephen Jay

• Darwin and his finches: The evolution of a legend

  Citation: 174

  Authors: Frank J.

• From Candolle to croizat: Comments on the history of biogeography

  Citation: 161

  Authors: Gareth

• The Wistar rat as a right choice: Establishing mammalian standards and the ideal of a standardized mammal

  Citation: 141

  Authors: Bonnie Tocher

• The Spatial Turn: Geographical Approaches in the History of Science

  Citation: 133

  Authors: Diarmid A.

• Unifying biology: The evolutionary synthesis and evolutionary biology

  Citation: 125

  Authors: V. B.

• The origin of theOrigin revisited

  Citation: 111

  Authors: Silvan S.

• The historical bases of the concept of allelopathy

  Citation: 104

  Authors: R. J.

• Darwin and the political economists: Divergence of character

  Citation: 103

  Authors: Silvan S.

• Technocratic optimism, H. T. Odum, and the partial transformation of ecological metaphor after World War II

  Citation: 97

  Authors: Peter J.

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