Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Philosophy journal rankings 2021
94 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Philosophy has 94 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.42. The top three are Philosophical Issues, Noûs, and The Philosophical Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
94 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Philosophical IssuesWiley · United States | 3.69Q1 | 3.67 1.71 up from 2020 | 73 | 41% | $2,900 | ||
2NoûsWiley · United States | 3.28Q1 | 4.18 1.11 up from 2020 | 107 | 64% | $2,900 | ||
3The Philosophical ReviewDuke University Press · United States | 2.76Q1 | 3.79 1.29 up from 2020 | 128 | 10% | — | ||
4EpistemeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 1.15 0.55 down from 2020 | 155 | 83% | $3,550 | ||
5International Journal for Philosophy of ReligionSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 1.68 0.93 up from 2020 | 111 | 49% | $3,190 | ||
6EthicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.41Q1 | 2.59 0.59 down from 2020 | 71 | 14% | — | ||
7Philosophy CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 2.96 0.11 down from 2020 | 188 | 35% | $2,900 | ||
8Australasian Philosophical ReviewTaylor & Francis · Australia | 2.30Q1 | 2.84 2.57 up from 2020 | 105 | 39% | — | ||
9The Journal of PhilosophyPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States | 2.09Q1 | 2.01 0.40 down from 2020 | 118 | 20% | — | ||
10Ergo an Open Access Journal of PhilosophyOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 1.99Q1 | 2.16 0.78 up from 2020 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
11Informal LogicOAUniversity of Windsor · Canada | 1.94Q1 | 0.93 1.11 down from 2020 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
12Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 1.85 0.58 up from 2020 | 60 | 44% | $3,947 | ||
13Faith and PhilosophyOASociety of Christian Philosophers · United States | 1.85Q1 | 0.99 0.40 up from 2020 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
14Rhetoric Society QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.85Q1 | 1.17 0.48 down from 2020 | 116 | 15% | — | ||
15Pacific philosophical quarterlyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 2.22 0.49 up from 2020 | 98 | 44% | $2,760 | ||
16Australasian Journal of PhilosophyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.44 1.21 up from 2020 | 239 | 47% | — | ||
17Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.70 0.34 up from 2020 | 256 | 40% | $2,900 | ||
18MindOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.41 0.36 up from 2020 | 261 | 27% | $4,002 | ||
19The Philosophical QuarterlyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.25 0.49 up from 2020 | 245 | 48% | $4,204 | ||
20Church Communication and CultureOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 0.90 0.33 up from 2020 | 60 | 100% | $1,226 | ||
21Analytic PhilosophyWiley · United States | 1.49Q1 | 1.57 0.09 up from 2020 | 80 | 42% | $2,900 | ||
22The MonistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 2.04 0.79 up from 2020 | 99 | 49% | $4,036 | ||
23Philosophical StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.45Q1 | 2.07 0.31 up from 2020 | 523 | 65% | $3,190 | ||
24Journal of the American Philosophical AssociationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 1.94 0.31 up from 2020 | 115 | 79% | $3,550 | ||
25Aristotelian Society Supplementary VolumeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 1.92 0.46 up from 2020 | 39 | 73% | $3,947 | ||
26Journal of Military EthicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 0.96 0.37 up from 2020 | 75 | 31% | — | ||
27Canadian Journal of PhilosophyCambridge University Press · United States | 1.26Q2 | 1.56 0.57 up from 2020 | 171 | 84% | $3,550 | ||
28Royal Institute of Philosophy SupplementCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 0.86 0.07 down from 2020 | 118 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
29European Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 1.38 0.15 up from 2020 | 227 | 43% | $3,240 | ||
30The British Journal of AestheticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 1.70 0.24 up from 2020 | 145 | 41% | $3,789 | ||
31Journal of Media and ReligionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.17Q2 | 0.75 0.45 up from 2020 | 35 | 15% | — | ||
32TheoLogica An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical TheologyOAUniversité catholique de Louvain · Belgium | 1.16Q2 | 0.55 0.12 down from 2020 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
33SyntheseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 1.81 0.24 up from 2020 | 1,286 | 65% | $3,190 | ||
34InquiryTaylor & Francis · Norway | 1.13Q2 | 1.79 0.52 up from 2020 | 286 | 54% | — | ||
35MetaphilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.88 0.22 down from 2020 | 127 | 38% | $2,760 | ||
36The Southern Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United States | 1.08Q2 | 0.85 0.61 down from 2020 | 111 | 22% | $2,900 | ||
37Philosophical ExplorationsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.26 0.23 down from 2020 | 62 | 36% | — | ||
38International Journal of Philosophical StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.10 0.56 up from 2020 | 124 | 40% | — | ||
39TopoiSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.01Q2 | 1.43 0.18 down from 2020 | 191 | 73% | $3,290 | ||
40Rhetoric ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 0.76 0.26 up from 2020 | 105 | 0% | — | ||
41Theological LibrarianshipOAAtla · United States | 0.99Q2 | 0.70 0.52 up from 2020 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 1.08 1.03 down from 2020 | 146 | 18% | $3,492 | ||
43The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of MedicineOxford University Press | 0.94Q2 | 1.97 1.00 up from 2020 | 124 | 38% | $3,973 | ||
44Res PhilosophicaUnited States | 0.88Q2 | 0.84 0.64 down from 2020 | 101 | 17% | — | ||
45Journal of Religion Media and Digital CultureBrill · United States | 0.86Q2 | 0.65 0.18 down from 2020 | 79 | 13% | — | ||
46Philosophy and RhetoricPenn State University Press · United States | 0.84Q2 | 0.46 0.11 up from 2020 | 127 | 3% | — | ||
47AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 0.86 0.07 down from 2020 | 274 | 44% | $3,798 | ||
48ErkenntnisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.80Q3 | 1.12 0.17 up from 2020 | 360 | 67% | $2,290 | ||
49Philosophical TopicsUniversity of Arkansas Press · United States | 0.79Q3 | 0.79 0.72 down from 2020 | 69 | 18% | — | ||
50DiscoursOAPresses universitaires de Caen · France | 0.74Q3 | 0.78 0.09 down from 2020 | 34 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Philosophy highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics154
- Philosophy94
- Archeology69
- Literature and Literary Theory64
- Music32
- History and Philosophy of Science27
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts24
- Conservation23
- Museology23
- History7
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Philosophy journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 94
- Window papers (baseline)
- 84,237 +12.1% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.807 -2.2% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.