Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Philosophy journal rankings 2002
56 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Philosophy has 56 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.59, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are Philosophical Issues, European Journal of Philosophy, and The Journal of Philosophy.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Arts and Humanities (13)
56 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2002. | Compare |
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1Philosophical IssuesWiley · United States | 4.60Q1 | 1.02 0.77 up from 2001 | 52 | 11% | $2,900 | ||
2European Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 0.42 0.25 up from 2001 | 56 | 6% | $3,240 | ||
3The Journal of PhilosophyPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States | 3.48Q1 | 1.78 0.02 up from 2001 | 191 | 9% | — | ||
4The Philosophical ReviewDuke University Press · United States | 2.96Q1 | 0.94 0.17 down from 2001 | 384 | 2% | — | ||
5Philosophical ExplorationsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 1.12 0.86 up from 2001 | 52 | 6% | — | ||
6MindOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 0.86 0.05 down from 2001 | 179 | 2% | $4,002 | ||
7The Philosophical QuarterlyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 0.89 0.14 up from 2001 | 127 | 4% | $4,204 | ||
8NoûsWiley · United States | 1.96Q1 | 1.32 0.44 up from 2001 | 207 | 7% | $2,900 | ||
9Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 0.89 0.39 down from 2001 | 426 | 7% | $2,900 | ||
10Canadian Journal of PhilosophyCambridge University Press · United States | 1.84Q1 | 0.61 0.44 up from 2001 | 92 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
11Pacific philosophical quarterlyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 0.91 0.77 up from 2001 | 65 | 4% | $2,760 | ||
12Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 0.39 0.31 down from 2001 | 101 | 2% | $3,947 | ||
13The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of MedicineOxford University Press | 1.50Q1 | 1.05 0.02 up from 2001 | 54 | 4% | $3,973 | ||
14Aristotelian Society Supplementary VolumeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 0.70 0.10 down from 2001 | 48 | 0% | $3,947 | ||
15The MonistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 0.31 1.01 down from 2001 | 93 | 5% | $4,036 | ||
16dialecticaOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 0.19 0.16 up from 2001 | 55 | 29% | $2,500 | ||
17RatioWiley · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 0.46 0.11 up from 2001 | 85 | 9% | $2,900 | ||
18Rhetoric Society QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.13Q2 | 0.58 0.18 up from 2001 | 70 | 0% | — | ||
19Philosophical StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 0.65 0.38 down from 2001 | 213 | 2% | $3,190 | ||
20Midwest Studies in PhilosophyWiley · United States | 1.03Q2 | 0.23 0.14 up from 2001 | 46 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
21Australasian Journal of PhilosophyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 0.46 0.33 down from 2001 | 165 | 4% | — | ||
22International Journal for Philosophy of ReligionSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 0.93Q2 | 0.37 0.28 up from 2001 | 94 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
23InquiryTaylor & Francis · Norway | 0.85Q2 | 0.69 0.51 up from 2001 | 72 | 0% | — | ||
24MetaphilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 0.39 0.28 up from 2001 | 71 | 10% | $2,760 | ||
25TopoiSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.71Q2 | 0.32 0.26 up from 2001 | 50 | 8% | $3,290 | ||
26The Southern Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United States | 0.66Q2 | 0.34 0.27 up from 2001 | 145 | 8% | $2,900 | ||
27ErkenntnisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.64Q2 | 0.28 0.23 down from 2001 | 144 | 4% | $2,290 | ||
28Argumentation and AdvocacyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.60Q2 | 0.23 0.06 down from 2001 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
29SyntheseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.58Q3 | 0.39 0.08 up from 2001 | 256 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
30Philosophical TopicsUniversity of Arkansas Press · United States | 0.56Q3 | 0.14 0.07 down from 2001 | 92 | 0% | — | ||
31Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.22 0.06 down from 2001 | 286 | 18% | $3,492 | ||
32Facta PhilosophicaSwitzerland | 0.54Q3 | 0.25 0.12 up from 2001 | 48 | 25% | — | ||
33Journal of Phenomenological PsychologyBrill · Netherlands | 0.52Q3 | 0.22 0.01 up from 2001 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
34AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.45Q3 | 0.24 0.12 down from 2001 | 343 | 6% | $3,798 | ||
35Philosophy and RhetoricPenn State University Press · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.14 0.01 down from 2001 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
36Religious StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.36Q3 | 0.10 0.10 down from 2001 | 106 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
37Rhetoric ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.33Q3 | 0.00 0.10 down from 2001 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
38Informal LogicOAUniversity of Windsor · Canada | 0.33Q3 | 0.15 0.01 down from 2001 | 74 | 91% | — | ||
39Faith and PhilosophyOASociety of Christian Philosophers · United States | 0.32Q3 | 0.09 0.09 down from 2001 | 139 | 91% | — | ||
40Rhetoric and Public AffairsMichigan State University · United States | 0.28Q3 | 0.08 0.03 down from 2001 | 232 | 0% | — | ||
41The British Journal of AestheticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.27Q3 | 0.13 0.21 down from 2001 | 132 | 6% | $3,789 | ||
42The National Catholic Bioethics QuarterlyNational Catholic Bioethics Center · United States | 0.27Q3 | 0.14no 2001 value | 87 | 14% | — | — | |
43The Journal of Value InquirySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.27Q4 | 0.11 0.07 up from 2001 | 152 | 2% | $3,190 | ||
44Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary VolumeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.26Q4 | 0.24 0.02 down from 2001 | 33 | 6% | — | ||
45International Journal of Philosophical StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.19Q4 | 0.10 0.03 down from 2001 | 75 | 0% | — | ||
46Journal of Philosophical ResearchPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.10 0.06 up from 2001 | 80 | 11% | — | ||
47PhilosophiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.14Q4 | 0.06 0.35 down from 2001 | 70 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
48SATSDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.12Q4 | 0.06 0.05 down from 2001 | 34 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
49Philosophy, psychiatry & psychologyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 0.12Q4 | 0.11 0.11 up from 2001 | 47 | 3% | — | ||
50Royal Institute of Philosophy SupplementCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.12Q4 | 0.03 0.17 down from 2001 | 92 | 16% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Philosophy highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics71
- Philosophy56
- Archeology36
- Literature and Literary Theory31
- History and Philosophy of Science20
- Music15
- Conservation11
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts11
- Museology8
- History6
- Classics0
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 additional Philosophy journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 56
- Window papers (baseline)
- 77,878 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.59 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 49 | 53 | 56 | 59 | 62 | 64 | 69 | 69 | 68 | 69 | 68 | 69 | 71 | 77 | 79 | 81 | 83 | 85 | 91 | 90 | 92 | 94 | 94 | 95 | 98 | 95 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 26,841 | 75,988 | 77,878 | 80,868 | 35,710 | 40,424 | 42,746 | 46,443 | 48,386 | 52,319 | 55,080 | 59,462 | 61,982 | 64,203 | 64,880 | 66,574 | 70,031 | 72,499 | 75,121 | 81,236 | 82,211 | 84,237 | 81,026 | 82,192 | 80,079 | 78,755 | |
| Median OJR | 0.48 | 0.62 | 0.59 | 0.690 | 0.6948 | 0.757 | 0.667 | 0.68 | 0.64 | 0.774 | 0.8078 | 0.65 | 0.79 | 0.764 | 0.73 | 0.61 | 0.671 | 0.6949 | 0.825 | 0.91 | 0.821 | 0.807 | 0.71 | 0.770 | 0.8084 | 0.66 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.