Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Philosophy journal rankings 2020
92 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Philosophy has 92 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2019 to 0.82, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.26. The top three are Noûs, The Philosophical Review, and Philosophy Compass.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
92 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1NoûsWiley · United States | 2.64Q1 | 3.07 1.34 down from 2019 | 120 | 64% | $2,900 | ||
2The Philosophical ReviewDuke University Press · United States | 2.60Q1 | 2.50 1.36 up from 2019 | 119 | 32% | — | ||
3Philosophy CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.06 0.68 up from 2019 | 203 | 25% | $2,900 | ||
4The Journal of PhilosophyPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States | 2.55Q1 | 2.42 0.70 up from 2019 | 128 | 22% | — | ||
5EthicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.55Q1 | 3.17 1.62 down from 2019 | 83 | 22% | — | ||
6Philosophical IssuesWiley · United States | 2.33Q1 | 1.96 0.13 down from 2019 | 72 | 56% | $2,900 | ||
7Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 2.11 1.19 up from 2019 | 139 | 16% | $3,492 | ||
8Journal of Religion Media and Digital CultureBrill · United States | 2.07Q1 | 0.84 0.68 up from 2019 | 60 | 15% | — | ||
9EpistemeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 1.70 0.75 up from 2019 | 145 | 51% | $3,550 | ||
10Rhetoric Society QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.02Q1 | 1.65 0.80 up from 2019 | 114 | 6% | — | ||
11Philosophical TopicsUniversity of Arkansas Press · United States | 1.74Q1 | 1.51 0.44 up from 2019 | 64 | 21% | — | ||
12Journal of the American Philosophical AssociationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 1.63 0.07 up from 2019 | 111 | 57% | $3,550 | ||
13The Philosophical QuarterlyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 1.76 0.19 up from 2019 | 225 | 34% | $4,204 | ||
14MindOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 1.05 0.18 down from 2019 | 244 | 31% | $4,002 | ||
15Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 1.36 0.43 down from 2019 | 279 | 45% | $2,900 | ||
16Informal LogicOAUniversity of Windsor · Canada | 1.51Q1 | 2.04 0.48 up from 2019 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
17Res PhilosophicaUnited States | 1.50Q1 | 1.49 0.44 up from 2019 | 97 | 30% | — | ||
18Ergo an Open Access Journal of PhilosophyOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.39 0.50 up from 2019 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
19Pacific philosophical quarterlyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 1.74 0.60 up from 2019 | 99 | 56% | $2,760 | ||
20Australasian Journal of PhilosophyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 1.24 0.35 down from 2019 | 231 | 35% | — | ||
21Philosophical StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.30Q1 | 1.75 0.01 down from 2019 | 519 | 50% | $3,190 | ||
22Analytic PhilosophyWiley · United States | 1.27Q1 | 1.48 0.89 down from 2019 | 70 | 28% | $2,900 | ||
23MetaphilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 1.10 0.27 down from 2019 | 127 | 29% | $2,760 | ||
24The British Journal of AestheticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 1.46 0.97 up from 2019 | 164 | 20% | $3,789 | ||
25Faith and PhilosophyOASociety of Christian Philosophers · United States | 1.25Q2 | 0.59 0.06 up from 2019 | 94 | 100% | — | ||
26American Philosophical QuarterlyUniversity of Illinois Press · United States | 1.24Q2 | 0.84 0.28 up from 2019 | 104 | 14% | — | ||
27SyntheseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.16Q2 | 1.57 0.23 up from 2019 | 1,237 | 58% | $3,190 | ||
28Aristotelian Society Supplementary VolumeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 1.46 0.65 up from 2019 | 39 | 15% | $3,947 | ||
29European Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 1.22 0.11 up from 2019 | 228 | 43% | $3,240 | ||
30Philosophical ExplorationsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 1.49 0.25 up from 2019 | 80 | 13% | — | ||
31TheoLogica An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical TheologyOAUniversité catholique de Louvain · Belgium | 1.05Q2 | 0.68 0.45 up from 2019 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
32Philosophical PapersTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 1.20 0.17 up from 2019 | 61 | 31% | — | ||
33TopoiSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 1.61 0.58 up from 2019 | 227 | 53% | $3,290 | ||
34International Journal for Philosophy of ReligionSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 1.03Q2 | 0.75 0.22 up from 2019 | 112 | 37% | $3,190 | ||
35Canadian Journal of PhilosophyCambridge University Press · United States | 1.03Q2 | 0.99 0.32 down from 2019 | 171 | 63% | $3,550 | ||
36The Southern Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United States | 1.02Q2 | 1.47 1.08 up from 2019 | 116 | 26% | $2,900 | ||
37InquiryTaylor & Francis · Norway | 0.96Q2 | 1.27 0.43 down from 2019 | 240 | 52% | — | ||
38CorpusFrance | 0.96Q2 | 0.71 0.09 up from 2019 | 43 | 91% | — | ||
39The Journal of Value InquirySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.94Q2 | 0.66 0.93 down from 2019 | 123 | 22% | $3,190 | ||
40ManuscritoOAUniversity of Campinas · Brazil | 0.92Q2 | 0.43 0.09 down from 2019 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
41Rhetoric ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 0.51 0.03 up from 2019 | 94 | 0% | — | ||
42Journal of Analytic TheologyOAUnited States | 0.90Q2 | 0.63 0.08 up from 2019 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
43Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.27 0.15 down from 2019 | 56 | 52% | $3,947 | ||
44PhilosophiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.89Q2 | 1.11 0.30 up from 2019 | 121 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
45RatioWiley · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 0.76 0.85 down from 2019 | 75 | 38% | $2,900 | ||
46Journal of Media and ReligionTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.82Q2 | 0.30 0.09 down from 2019 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
47Royal Institute of Philosophy SupplementCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.82Q3 | 0.93 0.03 up from 2019 | 111 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
48Philosophy and RhetoricPenn State University Press · United States | 0.81Q3 | 0.35 0.09 down from 2019 | 115 | 9% | — | ||
49Journal of Philosophical ResearchPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States | 0.81Q3 | 1.11 0.04 up from 2019 | 59 | 29% | — | ||
50Church Communication and CultureOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.80Q3 | 0.57 0.09 up from 2019 | 58 | 100% | $1,226 |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Philosophy highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics153
- Philosophy92
- Archeology70
- Literature and Literary Theory60
- Music32
- History and Philosophy of Science27
- Conservation24
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts24
- Museology23
- History7
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
16 additional Philosophy journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 92
- Window papers (baseline)
- 82,211 +13.4% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.821 +18.1% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.