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DIRECTORY KEY

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

WMin and WMax: minimum and maximum word 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
    SNGL = single-blind
    DBLE = double-blind
​    TRPL = triple-blind
Revs: if the journal publishes book reviews
    NBKR = does not publish book reviews
    Inv. = publishes book reviews by invitation only
    YBRK = publishes book reviews***
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​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
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)
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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

The Sub-Fields selector above the directory can be applied to isolate philosophical subdisciplines such as Generalist Philosophy Journals, Ethics Journals, Philosophy of Science Journals, etc. 
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. 

* 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.
** See PJIP Ranking Index for more information. 
*** 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. 
**** Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society is invite-only except for replies - data is shown for replies.

Data for 2023/24 last updated September 2024.
Citation based rankings sourced from SCImago, (n.d.). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Retrieved 1st September 2024, from http://www.scimagojr.com & Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), (n.d.). SNIP Journal Indicators. Retrieved 1st September 2024, from https://www.journalindicators.com/downloads