General Philosophy Journals: Rankings, Open Access, and More

12/8/2024

Philosophy is a broad and sizable subject that spans various topics such as ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, logic, and the philosophies of science, religion, history, mind, and politics. Often, you’ll find that many ‘generalist’ journals prefer some areas of philosophy over others, but overall, they will publish articles on various contrasting topics.

academic journals covering various topics in general philosophy

Complete Directory of Generalist Philosophy Journals

This post lists the academic peer-reviewed journals that publish in General Philosophy. All of these can be viewed in the PJIP Directory alongside information about their word limits, open-access status, peer-review anonymity, if they publish book reviews, if they publish discussions, rankings including SJR, SNIP, and CiteScore, and for some, operational stats such as acceptance rates, number of submissions, and response times.

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The Best General Philosophy Journals

Numerous metrics can be used to determine what the top General Philosophy journals are. This includes SJR, SNIP, CiteScore, Citation percentage, H-indexes, and Google Scholar rankings. All of these are readily accessible in the PJIP Ranking Index; users can easily compare these metrics to evaluate how each General Philosophy journal performs across various criteria.

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Open Access General Philosophy Journals

A key distinction between academic journals is their open access status. The PJIP directory classifies ‘Diamond Open Access’ journals that charge no fees to authors or readers, ‘Part Open Access’ journals that require authors to pay a fee for open access publication, ‘Hybrid’ journals that offer authors the option to publish open access by paying fees (but will otherwise publish articles non-open access), and ‘Traditional’ journals that charge readers for access to their articles. The PJIP directory can be filtered to show General Philosophy journals in each of these categories.

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