Do Rejected Philosophers Rate Referee Comment Quality Lower?

It seems that they might. Matti Eklund, one of the editors of Philosophical Review, emailed me asking for some more detailed number crunching on the Journal Surveys section with respect to Comment Quality Ratings. He wanted to test the hypothesis that philosophers who have papers rejected tend to rate the quality of comments lower. So [...]

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A Philosophy Journal Worthy of Some Praise

A reader sent me an email this morning asking if I would share their positive experience with a philosophy journal. This person submitted something to Dialectica and received this PDF. Since this person’s paper is still under consideration, they didn’t want to out themselves during the blind review process. Here’s what this person wrote to [...]

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Just Added 42 Philosophy Journals to the Surveys Page

I just added 42 journals to the journal surveys page! I don’t think I’ve missed any requests. If you don’t see a journal on the list that you’ve requested, please let me know. I’ve got some other features that I’ll be adding to the survey page soon. For now, get those surveys in and enjoy! Here’s [...]

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Revise and Resubmit Rates at Top Philosophy Journals

So far, I’ve posted some preliminary comparative data on some of the top general philosophy journals. We’ve seen comparisons based on average review times and comparisons based on percentages of submissions that received comments. Now let’s look at the likelihood that a journal will give you a second chance. I’ve taken the same general journals [...]

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Journal Review Time Comparisons

Th journal surveys have been up for a couple of months. Now let’s start playing around with the results and have a little fun. I’m picking a list of some of the top, general journals to compare reported review times. Below I’ve listed the average review time and the mode (both in months). I’ve also [...]

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Journal Surveys: Testing Additional Information Entries

I’ve been playing around with ways to allow philosophers to collectively generate some table of additional useful information about the journal for the journal surveys page, and I think I’ve found a really great way to do it. I can embed the following kind of table at the top of each journal page. If you [...]

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List of New Journals Added to the Survey List

I’ve had several requests to add new journals to this journal survey list. Keep those coming. I still intend for the list to include any philosophy journals that philosophers want added. So, feel free to request to have a journal added. Here is a list of journals that have been requested by philosophers in the [...]

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Journal Survey Data is Rolling In

I don’t know how apparent it is to anyone else, but on my end I’m getting flooded with journal survey data. This is much better than I could have hoped for in the first two days.

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All Journal Surveys Are Up!

I now have a survey/data table combo for all of the journals listed on the Philosophy Journal Wiki! Start filling out surveys regarding your recent submissions, and start spreading the word. Here are some more miscellaneous notes.

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Journal Surveys (A)-(I) are Up!

Surprise! I have survey/data table combos up for all journals on the Philosophy Journal Wiki from letter “A” to letter “I”. The rest will be coming soon. You can access the journal survey page here (or click on the tab above that says “Journal Surveys”) Here are some miscellaneous notes about the process so far.

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