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Philosophy Journal Directory

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About the PJIP Philosophy Journal Directory

The PJIP Directory is an expansive list of peer-reviewed philosophy journals presented alongside relevant information about the journal's specialism, word limits, review anonymity, open-access status, SJR ranking, SNIP ranking, CiteScore, types of papers published (book reviews; discussions), and in a drop-down menu, aims and scope, eISSN, and publisher.

If a journal participates in the PJIP Operations Survey, its listing will also be accompanied by statistics on philosophy journal response times, acceptance rates, % of submissions that are returned to authors with comments, and the average time from acceptance to publication. The 2024 survey is currently in progress and should be complete in the latter half of the year. For additional ranking metrics, see the PJIP Ranking Index.​

Learn more about providing missing data or including a new journal on our Indexing page. Alternatively, if there are additional journals that warrant inclusion in the list, or if you find details that are inaccurate or out-of-date, please contact [email protected].

For more infomation about how to use the Directory, a comprehensive guide can be found here.

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Sub-Fields

Generalist Philosophy Journals Aesthetics, Arts, and Literature Journals Continental Philosophy Journals Epistemology Journals Ethics Journals Feminist Philosophy Journals History and Ancient Philosophy Journals Philosophy History of Science Journals Logic Journals Metaphysics Journals Moral and Political Philosophy Journals Philosophy of Mind Journals Philosophy of Science Journals Regional Philosophy Journals Philosophy of Religion Journals

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	Journal	Area	WMin	WMax	OpAc	Anon	Revs	Disc	SJR	SNIP	IPP	Acpt	DeRj	ADR	ADDR	ADER	Overview:	eISSN:	Languages:	Location:	Publisher:

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Directory Key

Area Column:
GNRL = Generalist Philosophy
AAL = Aesthetics, Arts, and Literature
CNTL = Continental Philosophy
EPIS = Epistemology
FMST = Feminist Philosophy
HanA = History and Ancient Philosophy
HSci = History of Science
LGIC = Logic
META = Metaphysics
ManP = Moral and Political Philosophy
MIND =  Philosophy of Mind
PSci = Philosophy of Science
REGN = Regional philosophy
RLGN = Philosophy of Religion

WMin, WMax, PMax: minimum and maximum word/page counts*
OpAc: open access status
DAO = diamond open access (no fees for authors or readers)
POA = open access but fees applicable for publication
HYBD = hybrid with the option to publish open access by paying fees
​NOA = no option to publish open-access
Anon: peer review anonymity
TRPL = triple-blind
DBLE = double-blind
SNGL = single-blind
NBR = no blind review
Revs: if the journal publishes book reviews**
NBKR = does not publish book reviews
Inv. = publishes book reviews by invitation only
YBRK = publishes book reviews
Disc = if the journal publishes discussion pieces**
NDIS = does not publish discussions
RTJA = publishes discussions that reply to journal articles
YDIS = publishes discussions​

SJR, SNIP, and CiSc: citation-based journal ranking metrics.
​Acpt: acceptance rate calculated as total submissions / number accepted.
Com%: % of manuscripts returned to authors with at least one referee report 
ADDR: average review time (in days) for manuscripts there were desk rejected.
​ADER: average review time (in days) for manuscripts that were sent for external review.
​ADAP: average time (in days) from acceptance to publication (online or print, whichever's first)

IOJ next to the journal name indicates that the journal publishes by invitation only
​Blank cells indicate no source for this information is currently available

Colour Codes (relative to journals in the same subject):

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The Sub-Fields selector above the directory can be applied to isolate particular subject subdisciplines. The Custom Search Builder below the directory can be used to show only particular journals. For example, setting Area to equal GNRL will only show generalist journals, setting OpAc to not NTOA will remove journals that do not offer the option to publish open access, etc. Further search refinement is attainable by using multiple conditions. For example, setting both WMin to be less than and WMax to be greater than the length of a prospective manuscript will remove all journals that have incompatible word limits. This functionality applies to all data stored in the table, including that in the drop-down menus. 
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Citation based rankings sourced from SCImago, (n.d.). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Retrieved from http://www.scimagojr.com & Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), (n.d.). SNIP Journal Indicators. Retrieved from https://www.journalindicators.com/downloads

* Some journals do not specify an upper word limit (Philosophical Review, Philosophers’ Imprint, Ergo, Inquiry, Dialectica, Philosophies, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, HOPOS, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Logic, and Cognition). To make the results sortable 15000 is used.  Additionally, some journals specify limits in number of pages (Synthese 15 – 30, Philosophia 20, Analyse & Kritik 20, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 24, The Journal of Symbolic Logic 30, Metaphysica 25, Journal of Value Inquiry 25, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 40, and Pro-Fil which asks for no more than 45000 characters. These have been converted to words at a rate of 500 words per single-spaced page. Importantly, what is included in the word count varies by journal (footnotes, references, abstract) so check submission guidelines.
** Practices vary by journal. For book reviews, in most cases, you are advised to contact the journal reviews editor. For discussions, check the submission guidelines for more information.