Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Philosophy journal rankings 2022
94 ranked journals · Subfield in Arts and Humanities
Philosophy has 94 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2021 to 0.71, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.04. The top three are Journal of Modern Philosophy, Noûs, and Lingvisticae Investigationes.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Journal of Modern PhilosophyOAUnited States | 4.80Q1 | 2.00 0.50 up from 2021 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
2NoûsWiley · United States | 2.88Q1 | 3.40 0.77 down from 2021 | 122 | 56% | $2,900 | ||
3Lingvisticae InvestigationesJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.79Q1 | 2.08 1.56 up from 2021 | 37 | 29% | — | ||
4Philosophy CompassWiley · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 2.66 0.29 down from 2021 | 192 | 47% | $2,900 | ||
5EthicsUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.29Q1 | 3.75 1.16 up from 2021 | 73 | 18% | — | ||
6Philosophical IssuesWiley · United States | 2.09Q1 | 1.52 2.14 down from 2021 | 71 | 67% | $2,900 | ||
7Rhetoric ReviewRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 1.18 0.42 up from 2021 | 109 | 9% | — | ||
8Aristotelian Society Supplementary VolumeOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.04 0.12 up from 2021 | 39 | 71% | $3,947 | ||
9Australasian Journal of PhilosophyRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.85 0.60 down from 2021 | 254 | 40% | — | ||
10The Philosophical ReviewDuke University Press · United States | 1.50Q1 | 1.15 2.64 down from 2021 | 129 | 24% | — | ||
11The Journal of PhilosophyPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.28 0.73 down from 2021 | 114 | 36% | — | ||
12EpistemeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 1.30 0.15 up from 2021 | 155 | 87% | $3,550 | ||
13The Philosophical QuarterlyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 1.83 0.42 down from 2021 | 252 | 40% | $4,204 | ||
14Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 1.61 0.09 down from 2021 | 274 | 61% | $2,900 | ||
15The British Journal of AestheticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 1.41 0.29 down from 2021 | 169 | 27% | $3,789 | ||
16Philosophical StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 1.83 0.24 down from 2021 | 497 | 58% | $3,190 | ||
17Journal of Religion Media and Digital CultureBrill · United States | 1.24Q1 | 0.62 0.04 down from 2021 | 75 | 10% | — | ||
18SyntheseSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.24Q1 | 2.16 0.36 up from 2021 | 1,353 | 68% | $3,190 | ||
19Rhetoric Society QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.23Q1 | 1.10 0.07 down from 2021 | 122 | 15% | — | ||
20Journal of the American Philosophical AssociationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.16Q1 | 1.74 0.19 down from 2021 | 130 | 84% | $3,550 | ||
21Essays in PhilosophyOAPhilosophy Documentation Center · United States | 1.09Q1 | 1.46 0.88 up from 2021 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
22Ergo an Open Access Journal of PhilosophyOAMichigan Publishing · United States | 1.09Q1 | 1.20 0.96 down from 2021 | 110 | 100% | — | ||
23The MonistOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.06Q1 | 1.41 0.63 down from 2021 | 109 | 42% | $4,036 | ||
24InquiryTaylor & Francis · Norway | 1.04Q1 | 1.68 0.11 down from 2021 | 333 | 60% | — | ||
25Journal of Media and ReligionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.01Q2 | 1.32 0.57 up from 2021 | 37 | 17% | — | ||
26Philosophical ExplorationsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 1.30 0.04 up from 2021 | 66 | 41% | — | ||
27The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of MedicineOxford University Press | 0.99Q2 | 1.55 0.42 down from 2021 | 129 | 31% | $3,973 | ||
28MindOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 0.51 0.90 down from 2021 | 264 | 38% | $4,002 | ||
29TheoLogica An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical TheologyOAUniversité catholique de Louvain · Belgium | 0.90Q2 | 0.59 0.03 up from 2021 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
30Philosophy, psychiatry & psychologyJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 0.88Q2 | 1.22 0.40 up from 2021 | 160 | 6% | — | ||
31Philosophical TopicsUniversity of Arkansas Press · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.25 0.45 up from 2021 | 81 | 15% | — | ||
32Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 0.54 1.32 down from 2021 | 57 | 43% | $3,947 | ||
33International Journal for Philosophy of ReligionSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 0.85Q2 | 0.62 1.06 down from 2021 | 105 | 38% | $3,190 | ||
34SATSDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.85Q2 | 0.93 0.31 up from 2021 | 34 | 35% | $2,712 | ||
35Pacific philosophical quarterlyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 1.16 1.06 down from 2021 | 121 | 53% | $2,760 | ||
36European Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 0.82 0.55 down from 2021 | 250 | 45% | $3,240 | ||
37Journal of Military EthicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 1.02 0.06 up from 2021 | 74 | 45% | — | ||
38Philosophy and RhetoricPenn State University Press · United States | 0.81Q2 | 0.58 0.13 up from 2021 | 128 | 5% | — | ||
39TopoiSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.81Q2 | 1.54 0.11 up from 2021 | 158 | 72% | $3,290 | ||
40Religious StudiesCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 0.97 0.49 up from 2021 | 148 | 69% | $3,550 | ||
41ErkenntnisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.80Q2 | 1.17 0.06 up from 2021 | 392 | 72% | $2,290 | ||
42The Southern Journal of PhilosophyWiley · United States | 0.76Q2 | 0.83 0.03 down from 2021 | 116 | 29% | $2,900 | ||
43Informal LogicOAUniversity of Windsor · Canada | 0.74Q2 | 1.02 0.09 up from 2021 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
44Faith and PhilosophyOASociety of Christian Philosophers · United States | 0.73Q2 | 0.52 0.47 down from 2021 | 84 | — | — | ||
45Zeitschrift für Ethik und MoralphilosophieJ.B. Metzler · Germany | 0.73Q2 | 0.83 0.31 up from 2021 | 75 | 80% | $3,390 | ||
46International Journal of Philosophical StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 1.00 0.10 down from 2021 | 123 | 29% | — | ||
47MetaphilosophyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 0.75 0.13 down from 2021 | 139 | 46% | $2,760 | ||
48PhilosophiesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.71Q3 | 1.41 0.22 up from 2021 | 208 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
49American Philosophical QuarterlyUniversity of Illinois Press · United States | 0.70Q3 | 0.81 0.13 up from 2021 | 90 | 30% | — | ||
50AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 0.84 0.02 down from 2021 | 260 | 47% | $3,798 |
Subfields of Arts and Humanities, with Philosophy highlighted.
- Language and Linguistics160
- Philosophy94
- Literature and Literary Theory73
- Archeology72
- Music33
- History and Philosophy of Science28
- Conservation23
- Museology23
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts22
- History6
- Classics1
- General Arts and Humanities0
- Religious studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 94
- Window papers (baseline)
- 81,026 -0.3% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.71 -21.4% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.