Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Philosophy journal rankings 2013
77 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Philosophy has 77 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.76, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.22. The top three are Ethics, The Journal of Philosophy, and Faith and Philosophy.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
77 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1EthicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.57 0.94 up from 2012 | 79 | 7% | — | ||
2The Journal of PhilosophyPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States | 2.32Q1 | 1.13 0.14 down from 2012 | 124 | 16% | — | ||
3Faith and PhilosophyOASociety of Christian Philosophers · United States | 1.98Q1 | 0.80 0.55 up from 2012 | 151 | 96% | — | ||
4EpistemeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 0.87 0.31 down from 2012 | 74 | 42% | $3,550 | ||
5The Philosophical ReviewDuke University Press · United States | 1.95Q1 | 1.78 0.73 up from 2012 | 91 | 8% | — | ||
6Journal of Military EthicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 0.47 0.23 down from 2012 | 82 | 8% | — | ||
7NoûsWiley · United States | 1.84Q1 | 1.60 0.28 up from 2012 | 151 | 34% | $2,900 | ||
8Journal of Philosophical ResearchPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States | 1.83Q1 | 0.90 0.72 up from 2012 | 58 | 14% | — | ||
9Philosophical IssuesWiley · United States | 1.81Q1 | 1.09 0.06 up from 2012 | 64 | 22% | $2,900 | ||
10MetaphilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 0.76 0.26 down from 2012 | 130 | 17% | $2,760 | ||
11Informal LogicOAUniversity of Windsor · Canada | 1.66Q1 | 0.84no change | 66 | 100% | — | ||
12Journal of Phenomenological PsychologyBrill · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 2.22 1.58 up from 2012 | 33 | 5% | — | ||
13Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 1.06 0.08 up from 2012 | 312 | 14% | $2,900 | ||
14The MonistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.03 0.40 up from 2012 | 106 | 18% | $4,036 | ||
15InquiryTaylor & Francis · Norway | 1.43Q1 | 0.70 0.13 up from 2012 | 98 | 23% | — | ||
16Sikh FormationsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 0.42 0.28 down from 2012 | 64 | 3% | — | ||
17The Southern Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United States | 1.31Q1 | 1.14 0.87 up from 2012 | 139 | 8% | $2,900 | ||
18SyntheseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.27Q1 | 0.96 0.05 up from 2012 | 519 | 29% | $3,190 | ||
19Argumentation and AdvocacyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.22Q1 | 0.73 0.18 up from 2012 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
20Aristotelian Society Supplementary VolumeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 0.92 0.36 down from 2012 | 34 | 21% | $3,947 | ||
21Pacific philosophical quarterlyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.16 0.50 up from 2012 | 100 | 17% | $2,760 | ||
22The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of MedicineOxford University Press | 1.19Q2 | 1.37 0.11 up from 2012 | 116 | 9% | $3,973 | ||
23Rhetoric Society QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.17Q2 | 0.47 0.18 down from 2012 | 109 | 0% | — | ||
24Journal of Media and ReligionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.15Q2 | 0.53 0.71 down from 2012 | 47 | 4% | — | ||
25Approaching ReligionOADonner Institute · Finland | 1.15Q2 | 0.39 0.25 up from 2012 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
26SemenFrance | 1.15Q2 | 0.25 0.03 down from 2012 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
27Rhetoric and Public AffairsMichigan State University · United States | 1.12Q2 | 0.48 0.16 up from 2012 | 299 | 2% | — | ||
28Australasian Journal of PhilosophyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 0.90 0.37 up from 2012 | 255 | 11% | — | ||
29Theological LibrarianshipOAAtla · United States | 1.03Q2 | 0.30 0.10 up from 2012 | 122 | 100% | — | ||
30Philosophy CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 0.75 0.03 down from 2012 | 267 | 22% | $2,900 | ||
31Philosophy and RhetoricPenn State University Press · United States | 0.98Q2 | 0.51 0.30 up from 2012 | 117 | 7% | — | ||
32Philosophical StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.96Q2 | 0.86 0.04 up from 2012 | 551 | 21% | $3,190 | ||
33Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.02 0.51 up from 2012 | 64 | 13% | $3,947 | ||
34International Journal of Philosophical StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 0.50 0.01 down from 2012 | 120 | 16% | — | ||
35AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 0.65 0.16 down from 2012 | 382 | 11% | $3,798 | ||
36ErkenntnisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.83Q2 | 0.60 0.11 down from 2012 | 214 | 32% | $2,290 | ||
37The Philosophical QuarterlyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 0.43 0.16 up from 2012 | 186 | 18% | $4,204 | ||
38MindOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 0.52 0.11 down from 2012 | 314 | 14% | $4,002 | ||
39RatioWiley · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 0.55 0.07 down from 2012 | 106 | 22% | $2,900 | ||
40PoroiOAUniversity of Iowa · United States | 0.74Q3 | 0.30 0.22 down from 2012 | 48 | 95% | — | ||
41DiscoursOAPresses universitaires de Caen · France | 0.74Q3 | 0.40 0.33 up from 2012 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
42TopoiSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.73Q3 | 0.34 0.07 down from 2012 | 84 | 25% | $3,290 | ||
43European Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 0.51 0.24 up from 2012 | 157 | 21% | $3,240 | ||
44Canadian Journal of PhilosophyCambridge University Press · United States | 0.67Q3 | 0.42 0.10 up from 2012 | 119 | 35% | $3,550 | ||
45Religious StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 0.34 0.10 up from 2012 | 140 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
46PhiloCenter for Inquiry · United States | 0.65Q3 | 0.19 0.16 up from 2012 | 40 | 13% | — | ||
472ème Congrès Mondial de Linguistique FrançaisePublisher not listed | 0.64Q3 | —no 2012 value | 147 | — | — | ||
48Philosophy, psychiatry & psychologyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.54 0.23 up from 2012 | 110 | 2% | — | ||
49The International Journal of Person Centered MedicineUnited Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 0.73no change | 201 | 19% | — | ||
50Rhetoric ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.19 0.15 down from 2012 | 105 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Philosophy highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics114
- Philosophy77
- Archeology54
- Literature and Literary Theory46
- History and Philosophy of Science27
- Music25
- Conservation19
- Museology16
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts16
- History9
- Classics0
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
18 additional Philosophy journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 77
- Window papers (baseline)
- 64,203 +16.6% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.764 -5.5% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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 |
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| 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.