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Journal rankings · indicator year 2007

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Subfield ranking · 2007

Philosophy journal rankings 2007

69 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities

Philosophy has 69 ranked journals in 2007. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2006; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Ethics, The Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophical Issues.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. 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 2004–2006, the window the 2007 score is computed on.

69
22% 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.

0.68+0.01 vs 2006
This subfieldAll 0.86World 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: 16%
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 33 journals. 36 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Arts and Humanities (13)

69 ranked journals

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Philosophy ranking, 2007

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 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 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 2007.

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1EthicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States
2.95Q11.32 1.28 down from 2006952%—
2The Journal of PhilosophyPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States
2.72Q11.48 0.46 up from 200611910%—
3Philosophical IssuesWiley · United States
2.46Q11.26 0.10 down from 20066913%$2,900
4NoûsWiley · United States
2.42Q12.20 0.37 up from 20069117%$2,900
5EpistemeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
2.23Q10.55 0.01 up from 2006792%$3,550
6Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.67Q11.25 0.91 up from 200615717%$3,947
7The Philosophical ReviewDuke University Press · United States
1.61Q10.54 0.45 down from 20061397%—
8Pacific philosophical quarterlyWiley · United Kingdom
1.56Q10.62 0.46 down from 20069212%$2,760
9Philosophical StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.39Q10.69 0.20 down from 200640410%$3,190
10Australasian Journal of PhilosophyRoutledge · United Kingdom
1.33Q11.19 0.63 up from 200614016%—
1.32Q11.12 0.11 up from 20061095%$3,973
12European Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom
1.25Q10.73 0.51 up from 2006724%$3,240
13The British Journal of AestheticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.23Q10.75 0.53 up from 20062067%$3,789
14MetaphilosophyWiley · United Kingdom
1.21Q10.42 0.11 down from 20061277%$2,760
15SyntheseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.19Q10.81 0.11 up from 200644112%$3,190
16Aristotelian Society Supplementary VolumeOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.17Q10.82 0.68 down from 2006390%$3,947
17The Philosophical QuarterlyOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.14Q10.86 0.10 up from 200613611%$4,204
1.14Q10.78 0.02 up from 20063197%$2,900
19Rhetoric ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom
1.07Q20.27no change780%—
20Rhetoric Society QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States
1.06Q20.37 0.24 down from 2006924%—
21InquiryTaylor & Francis · Norway
0.91Q20.35 0.11 up from 2006847%—
22The MonistOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.90Q20.32 0.10 down from 2006947%$4,036
23Journal of Military EthicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.88Q20.33 0.10 up from 2006673%—
24Theology and ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.87Q20.22 0.03 down from 2006560%—
25SemenFrance
0.86Q20.23 0.18 up from 200663100%—
26dialecticaOAWiley · United Kingdom
0.83Q20.40 0.26 up from 200621221%$2,500
27Religious StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
0.80Q20.31 0.18 up from 2006922%$3,550
28Philosophy CompassWiley · United Kingdom
0.79Q20.60no 2006 value627%$2,900—
29RatioWiley · United Kingdom
0.78Q20.56 0.01 up from 200610516%$2,900
30Informal LogicOAUniversity of Windsor · Canada
0.77Q20.55 0.40 up from 200648——
31Argumentation and AdvocacyTaylor & Francis · United States
0.75Q20.31 0.14 down from 2006520%—
32PhilosophiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.74Q20.52 0.17 up from 20069413%$3,190
33Rhetoric and Public AffairsMichigan State University · United States
0.71Q20.26 0.07 up from 20061923%—
34Philosophy and RhetoricPenn State University Press · United States
0.70Q20.17 0.08 down from 20061721%—
35Canadian Journal of PhilosophyCambridge University Press · United States
0.68Q20.17 0.10 down from 20069628%$3,550
36MindOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.67Q30.43 0.06 down from 20063776%$4,002
37Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.64Q30.49 0.37 down from 200610619%$3,492
38ErkenntnisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.63Q30.43 0.34 down from 200611717%$2,290
39AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.63Q30.69 0.40 down from 200637012%$3,798
40American Philosophical QuarterlyUniversity of Illinois Press · United States
0.62Q30.45 0.12 up from 2006320%—
41Philosophical PapersTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.60Q30.28 0.17 up from 20065915%—
42International Journal of Philosophical StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.60Q30.30 0.10 up from 20068217%—
43Philosophy, psychiatry & psychologyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States
0.59Q30.42 0.20 up from 20061450%—
44Journal of Media and ReligionTaylor & Francis · United States
0.59Q30.08 0.22 down from 2006550%—
45Philosophical ExplorationsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.57Q30.70 0.16 up from 20066315%—
46International Journal for Philosophy of ReligionSpringer Nature · Netherlands
0.55Q30.21 0.14 up from 20066110%$3,190
47Midwest Studies in PhilosophyWiley · United States
0.55Q30.80 0.35 down from 20066510%$2,500
48Journal of Philosophical ResearchPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States
0.46Q30.15 0.04 up from 2006899%—
49Faith and PhilosophyOASociety of Christian Philosophers · United States
0.45Q30.07 0.22 down from 200615191%—
50The National Catholic Bioethics QuarterlyNational Catholic Bioethics Center · United States
0.42Q30.38 0.22 up from 200623810%—

Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

12 additional Philosophy journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2004–2006, 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: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
69
Window papers (baseline)
46,443 +30.1% from indicator year 2004
Median OJR
0.68 -2.6% from indicator year 2004
Rising journals (2025)
3

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 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.