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Journal rankings · indicator year 2004

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Subfield ranking · 2004

Philosophy journal rankings 2004

62 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities

Philosophy has 62 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.69, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.15. The top three are Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, The Philosophical Review, and The Journal of Philosophy.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 score is computed on.

62
23% of Arts and Humanities
Median OJR

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.

0.69
This subfieldAll 0.76World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

6%
All fields: 14%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,190
Median positive listed APC: $3,190 among 31 journals. 31 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Arts and Humanities (13)

62 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Philosophy ranking, 2004

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.

OJR

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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004.

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1Aristotelian Society Supplementary VolumeOxford University Press · United Kingdom
3.47Q12.38 1.16 up from 2003390%$3,947
2The Philosophical ReviewDuke University Press · United States
2.84Q10.93 0.60 down from 20033705%—
3The Journal of PhilosophyPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States
2.49Q10.95 1.33 down from 20031737%—
4Philosophy and RhetoricPenn State University Press · United States
2.25Q10.32 0.10 up from 2003674%—
5The MonistOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.17Q11.49 1.08 up from 20031016%$4,036
6European Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom
1.80Q10.20 0.39 down from 2003649%$3,240
7Religious StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
1.58Q10.34 0.26 up from 2003948%$3,550
8NoûsWiley · United States
1.48Q11.11 0.51 up from 200316716%$2,900
9MetaphilosophyWiley · United Kingdom
1.44Q10.51 0.14 down from 20039613%$2,760
1.43Q10.96 0.65 up from 200337100%—
11SyntheseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.37Q10.86 0.50 down from 20032777%$3,190
12InquiryTaylor & Francis · Norway
1.35Q10.44 0.34 up from 2003843%—
13Canadian Journal of PhilosophyCambridge University Press · United States
1.25Q10.43 0.22 down from 20039120%$3,550
1.19Q11.19 0.41 up from 2003572%$3,973
1.17Q10.79 0.03 down from 20034515%$2,900
16Philosophical TopicsUniversity of Arkansas Press · United States
1.15Q10.24 0.35 down from 20036212%—
17The Southern Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United States
1.15Q20.53 0.43 up from 20031417%$2,900
18Philosophical StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.15Q20.62 0.04 up from 20032198%$3,190
19The Philosophical QuarterlyOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.12Q20.70 0.15 up from 200314310%$4,204
20Argumentation and AdvocacyTaylor & Francis · United States
1.07Q20.58 0.16 up from 2003520%—
21MindOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.06Q20.49 0.08 up from 20033342%$4,002
22Journal of Media and ReligionTaylor & Francis · United States
0.96Q20.38 0.14 up from 2003405%—
23ErkenntnisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.93Q20.76 0.36 up from 20031382%$2,290
24The Journal of Value InquirySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.89Q20.47 0.42 up from 20031523%$3,190
25Midwest Studies in PhilosophyWiley · United States
0.84Q20.23 0.30 down from 2003450%$2,500
26Rhetoric and Public AffairsMichigan State University · United States
0.84Q20.32 0.25 up from 20032400%—
27PhiloCenter for Inquiry · United States
0.79Q20.05 0.04 down from 2003586%—
28SemenFrance
0.77Q20.14 0.05 up from 200345100%—
29TopoiSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.74Q20.08 1.03 down from 20035213%$3,290
30Australasian Journal of PhilosophyRoutledge · United Kingdom
0.74Q20.26 0.27 down from 200320211%—
31Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.70Q20.58 0.20 down from 20038914%$3,492
32Rhetoric Society QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States
0.69Q30.20 0.39 down from 2003663%—
33Philosophical IssuesWiley · United States
0.65Q30.17 0.40 down from 20035011%$2,900
34The British Journal of AestheticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.60Q30.15 0.17 down from 20031720%$3,789
35Pacific philosophical quarterlyWiley · United Kingdom
0.58Q30.17 0.45 down from 20036813%$2,760
36Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.54Q30.31 0.14 up from 20031203%$3,947
37Philosophy, psychiatry & psychologyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States
0.51Q30.19 0.15 down from 20031689%—
38AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.50Q30.49 0.10 down from 200338414%$3,798
39Journal of Philosophical ResearchPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States
0.49Q30.12 0.19 down from 2003986%—
40Informal LogicOAUniversity of Windsor · Canada
0.49Q30.24 0.04 up from 200351100%—
41Lingvisticae InvestigationesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands
0.42Q30.16 0.16 up from 2003410%—
42Philosophical ExplorationsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.40Q30.18 0.11 down from 20034815%—
43Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary VolumeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
0.35Q30.25 0.12 up from 20033012%—
44RatioWiley · United Kingdom
0.30Q30.13 0.23 down from 20038110%$2,900
45Journal of Military EthicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.26Q30.11 0.02 down from 2003380%—
46International Journal for Philosophy of ReligionSpringer Nature · Netherlands
0.25Q30.12 0.04 up from 2003807%$3,190
47Grazer Philosophische StudienRodopi Publishers · Netherlands
0.25Q30.17 0.18 down from 20038919%—
48dialecticaOAWiley · United Kingdom
0.22Q40.15no change776%$2,500
49Royal Institute of Philosophy SupplementCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
0.21Q40.19 0.01 up from 20039314%$3,550
50Rhetoric ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom
0.21Q40.11 0.09 up from 2003710%—

Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

15 additional Philosophy journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
62
Window papers (baseline)
35,710 -53.0% from indicator year 2001
Median OJR
0.6948 +11.5% from indicator year 2001
Rising journals (2025)
3

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals4953565962646969686968697177798183859190929494959895
Window papers (baseline)26,84175,98877,87880,86835,71040,42442,74646,44348,38652,31955,08059,46261,98264,20364,88066,57470,03172,49975,12181,23682,21184,23781,02682,19280,07978,755
Median OJR0.480.620.590.6900.69480.7570.6670.680.640.7740.80780.650.790.7640.730.610.6710.69490.8250.910.8210.8070.710.7700.80840.66

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.