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What are the best Philosophy journals?

The are many ways of evaluating what the top Philosophy journals are including SJR, SNIP, CiteScore, Cite Percentage, H-5 (Google Scholar), H index (SJR), leiter journal rankings, survey results de Burin, acceptance rates, and number of submissions. The PJIP Ranking Index displays all of these measures in one comprehensive table.

Importantly, the PJIP does not advocate for any particular way of ranking nor does the project assume to have any particular authority on the matter. The information presented here is solely to help philosophers make informed decisions when assessing which journals are appropriate venues for their manuscripts.

​ ​In-depth explanations of each metric can be found in a guide here.

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Generalist Philosophy Journals Aesthetics, Arts, and Literature Journals Continental Philosophy Journals Epistemology 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 Critical, Cultural, and Social Philosophy Journals

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Philosophy Journal Rankings

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Rank	Journal	Area	APPY	Paper Length	Open Access	Book Reviews	Discussions	SJR	SNIP	CiSc	CTE%	GSH5	SJRH	Leit	BrQu	BrAw	Acpt	Subs

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Rankings 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 = Philosophy 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
CCS = Critical, Cultural, and Social Philosophy

APPY: the average number of papers published by the journal per year 
SJR: SCImago Journal Rank Indicator
SNIP:  Source normalized impact per paper
CiSc: Elsevier's CiteScore
​CTE%: Percentage of journal publications that have received at least one citation
GSH5: Google Scholar H5
SJRH: SJR H Index
Leit: Leiter Rankings presented as the results of the 2022 pair-wise poll.
BrQu: Results of de Bruin's survey assessing journal quality
BrAw: Results of de Bruin's survey assessing journal awareness
Acpt: Journal acceptance rate calculated as total submissions / number accepted.
Subs: Total number of manuscripts submitted to the journal (in previous year)
IOJ next to the journal name indicates that the journal publishes by invitation only.

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

Top 5%

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

For Filters (if applicable)
Paper Length: Short = 5000 words or less.
Open Access: 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
​NTOA = no option to publish open-access
Book Reviews: if the journal publishes book reviews.
NBKR = does not publish book reviews
Inv. = publishes book reviews by invitation only
YBRK = publishes book reviews
Discussions: if the journal publishes discussion pieces.
NDIS = does not publish discussions.
RTJA = publishes discussions that reply to journal articles.
YDIS = publishes discussions

The Sub-Fields selector above the directory can be applied to isolate particular subject subdisciplines. If the PJIP also possesses directory information for this subject, Filters below the index can be applied to show journals of a certain type such as only Generalist journals, or only Open Access Journals, or only journals published in a particular country, etc. Crtl click multiple filters for further refinement such as showing only Open Access Generalist journals. ​
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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