Journal Rankings Compiled

I'm often looking up reports on journals in deciding where to submit papers, particularly when I stray from specialist political philosophy journals into more general venues. With that in mind, I thought it would be helpful - to me at least, but hopefully to others too - to compile some useful resources.

Brian Leiter had a survey of the journals, including general ones, publishing the best work in moral and political philosophy. Results here:

1 Ethics

2 Philosophy & Public Affairs

3 Phil. Review

4 J. Phil.

5 Journal of Political Philosophy

6 Nous

7 Philosophy & Phenomenological Research

8 Utilitas

9 Mind

10 Phil. Studies

(Pleased to see I've already published in two of those!)

A survey on Thom Brooks' blog - which I reported on here - produced the following ranking (I think it should be noted that 'general' journals appeared to systematically outperform 'specialist' ones):

1 J. Phil.

2 Phil. Review

3= Philosophy & Phenomenological Research

3= Nous

5 Mind

6 Ethics

7 Phil. Studies

8= Philosophy & Public Affairs

8= Synthese

10 Analysis

Finally, but by no means least, Brian Weatherson reports the results of a survey here. He doesn't provide a ranking, partly because a range of different measures are given, but going by the mean (avg) ranking here's how some of the above perform:

1 Phil. Review - 8.9

2 Mind - 8.7

3= J. Phil. - 8.6

3= Nous - 8.6

5 Ethics - 8.5

6 Philosophy & Public Affairs - 8.3

7 Philosophy & Phenomenological Research - 8.2

8 Phil. Studies - 7.3

9 Journal of Political Philosophy - 6.2

10 Utilitas - 5.8