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 . 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

• Central European Journal of Chemistry

• Chemical Communications

• Chemical Reviews

• Chemistry: A European Journal

• 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

• Acta Crystallographica-- parts A, B

• Advances in Physics

• American Journal of Physics

• Central European Journal of Physics

• Journal of Physics - parts A-D, G

• Journal of Magnetic Resonance

• Journal of the Physics and Chemistry of Solids

• New Journal of Physics

• Physical Review - parts A-E and Letters

• Reports on Progress in Physics

• Physical Review Letters

• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

• Revue Roumaine de Physique

• Solid State Physics- parts A to K.

Forensic Science, Law

• Forensic Science International

• Journal of Forensic Sciences

• Forensic Science Policy & Management

• International Journal of Transitional Justice

Life sciences

Biology in general

• American Naturalist

• Biological Reviews

• BioEssays

• Biophysical Journal

• Cell

• Journal of Cell Biology

• Central European Journal of Biology

• International Journal of Biological Sciences

• Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

• Journal of Theoretical Biology

• Journal of Molecular Biology

• PLoS Biology

• PLoS ONE

• The ScientificWorldJournal

Agriculture

• Agricultural and Food Chemistry

• Agronomy for sustainable development

• Australian Journal of Agricultural Research

• Cereal Chemistry
  • Journal of Apicultural Research
    • Journal of Animal Science
    • Crop Science
    • Journal of Dairy Science
    • Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
    • Journal of Economic Entomology
    • Pesticide Science

    Biophysics and biochemistry

    • Biochemical Journal
    • Biophysical Journal
    • European Journal of Biochemistry ^{, ,}
    • FEBS Journal
    • Journal of Biological Chemistry
    • Biochemistry
    • 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
    • Heredity
    • Journal of Genetics
    • Theoretical and Applied Genetics

    Horticulture

    • Journal of Applied Horticulture

    Neuroscience

    • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
    • Genes, Brain and Behavior
    • Journal of Neurochemistry
    • Journal of Neuroscience
    • Nature Neuroscience
    • Neuron
    • Trends in Neurosciences

    Ontology and Philosophy of Science

    • Axiomathes

    Mathematics and applied sciences

    Computer science

    For a more comprehensive list, see :Category:Computer science journals.
    
    
    • ACM Computing Reviews
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Communications of the ACM
    • Computer
    • IEEE Transactions on Computers
    • International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems
    • Journal of Functional Programming
    • Journal of Machine Learning Research
    • Journal of the ACM
    • SIAM Journal on Computing

    Engineering

    • Advances in Production Engineering & Management
    • Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
    • Fluid Phase Equilibria
    • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
    • International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine
    • Journal of Environmental Engineering
    • Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
    • Journal of the IEST
    • NASA Tech Briefs
    • Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal

    Materials science

    • Advanced Materials
    • Materials and Manufacturing Process ()
    • Advanced Functional Materials
    • JOM
    • Journal of Electronic Materials
    • Materials Today
    • Metallurgical and Materials Transactions
    • Nature Materials
    • Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
    • International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation

    Mathematics

    • Acta Mathematica
    • Annals of Mathematics
    • Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
    • Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
    • Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris (CRAS)
    • Duke Mathematical Journal
    • Inventiones Mathematicae
    • Journal of the American Mathematical Society
    • Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS
    • Journal of Algebra
    • Topology
    • Cahiers de Topologie

    Mechanics

    • Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
    • International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation
    • Advances in Applied Mechanics
    • International Journal of Plasticity
    • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
    • Journal of Statistical Mechanics - Theory and Experiment
    • Journal of Rheology
    • Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
    • Mechanics of Materials
    • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

    Statistics

    • Journal of the American Statistical Association
    • The American Statistician
    • Biometrics
    • 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

    Medicine

    • Annals of Internal Medicine
    • Archives of Internal Medicine
    • British Medical Journal
    • ecancermedicalscience
    • 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
    • The ScientificWorldJournal

    Health care

    • Health Affairs
    • Mayo Clinic Proceedings
    • Milbank Quarterly

    Nutrition and Food Science

    • Journal of Nutrition
    • Food Chemistry
      • International Journal of Food Science & Technology
      • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
      • Journal of Food Science
      • The Journal of Food Science Education
      • Starke--Starch

        Pharmaceutical Sciences

        • Daru-Journal of Faculty of Pharmacy
        • International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design
        • Phytotherapy Research''

        See also

        • Lists of journals
        • List of academic journals
        • List of journals available free online
        • List of academic databases and search engines
        • List of scientific journals in biology
        • Open access journals
        • List of science magazines of popular and non peer-reviewed kind