Journal Surveys

This page is designed for philosophers to collectively gather useful information about philosophy journals. I discuss the project more here.

Click on a journal below to fill out a brief  survey regarding your most recent submission to that journal or simply to see the results of all the surveys for that journal.

(You can read some miscellaneous notes about the project at the bottom of this page.)

List of Journals

Some Notes:

  1. Want a Journal Added to the List?
    Just post the name here, and I’ll get it up
  2. Errors You’ll See That We Don’t Need to Worry About
    You’ll see some #DIV/0 errors on a lot of these. That’s because the cell is missing some data it needs to perform some calculation. Once philosophers submit surveys (or I import data from the Philosophy Journal Wiki) those will go away.
  3. Surveys Are Ready To Start Receiving Your Data
    Even though I’m still ironing things out, the tables below are ready for data to be entered (even the journals that I haven’t imported philosophy journal wiki information from). So go ahead and start submitting those surveys.
  4. What if my paper has been accepted, but hasn’t been published?
    Submit the survey up to and including the Final Verdict entry. Leave the “Time from Acceptance to Publication” field blank. Later, when your paper is published, come back and fill out a new survey. Leave ALL entries blank (except for the required fields and the “Time from Acceptance to Publication” field).
  5. Philosophy Journal Wiki Imports Will Happen Soon
    I thought it was best to get the surveys up and start collecting new data as soon as possible. So my priority is to get all of the survey/data tables up. After they’re up and functioning properly, I’ll come back and import the philosophy journal wiki data.
  6. Coming Soon: Password Protection
    A very easy password protection will be happening soon. Simple instructions for the password will be placed at the top of this page so that human philosophers can easily figure it out, but spam bots cannot.
  7. Blank Spaces in the Raw Data Table
    Those blank spaces are there because of the tables on the far right of the raw data table that I set up to run calculations. Because there are entries in those first 25  rows on the far right, the survey skips over those row. Raw data from the surveys starts about 25 rows down on the raw data table. When you submit your survey, rest assured that the data is in the data table. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the data table if you want to verify that your survey was entered in. I use the blank spaces for Phil Wiki Imports so you’ll know when a survey has data imported from the Philosophy Journal Wiki.
  8. Gender/Race Questions Not in A Few Journals
    When I first started testing this out, I didn’t have race/gender questions in the surveys. If you notice that a survey doesn’t have those questions, it’s because you’re looking at one of the journals surveys I set up in the early rounds of testing. I’ll be going back and fixing this soon.
  9. Coming Soon: Quick Reference Sheet
    It’s going to be a pain to click through all of the journal pages to see if they’ve been updated. I’ll be offering up a few ways for users to quickly see which journals have data and which journals have been updated recently.
  10. Start submitting those surveys! And start spreading the word!
  11. If you want to leave any feedback, you can leave on this journal survey page. Or you can email me.

Enjoy!

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82 Responses to “Journal Surveys”

  1. Doug Portmore, on August 8th, 2009 at 8:50 pm Said:

    Thanks, Andrew, for providing this excellent service to the profession. I’ve posted an announcement on PEA Soup and will help to get the word out as much possible.

  2. Dan Boisvert, on August 9th, 2009 at 10:58 am Said:

    Andrew, this is wonderful service, and I can only imagine how much time and thought you’ve put into this. Thank you!

  3. Doug Portmore, on August 10th, 2009 at 8:16 am Said:

    Andrew,

    Some journals (such as, the Journal of Moral Philosophy) provide rather detailed and complete statistical information on their handling of submissions. Is there some way that you could display prominently a link to such information where it is available. Ultimately, journals should be providing this information themselves. And some do. For those that do, people visiting Journal Surveys should know about it.

  4. Andrew Cullison, on August 10th, 2009 at 8:49 am Said:

    Hi Doug,

    This can be done. I was thinking about adding a tab to the spreadsheet for each journal called “Journal Info”, or a table next to the spreadsheet which would display links like that. Eventually, users would be able to update these.

    Until I roll that out, people can paste links in the comments for that journal.

    What do you think?

  5. Doug Portmore, on August 10th, 2009 at 8:55 am Said:

    That sounds good. Best, Doug

  6. Clerk, on August 12th, 2009 at 9:29 am Said:

    Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I’m sorry if you already covered this somewhere, but is there any way to add a journal?

  7. Andrew Cullison, on August 12th, 2009 at 9:37 am Said:

    Hi Clerk,

    Yep. Just tell me what journal you want added.

  8. Matthew Slater, on August 12th, 2009 at 11:47 am Said:

    You could add International Studies in Philosophy of Science and Biology and Philosophy (just off the top of my head). The philosophical community is in your debt Andrew!

  9. Jason, on August 13th, 2009 at 1:58 pm Said:

    Thanks so much for doing this! You might consider adding Philosophical Papers.

  10. Andrew Moon, on August 13th, 2009 at 5:24 pm Said:

    I think that this is really helpful to the phil. community that you’re doing this. I appreciate it.

    Here’s a suggestion. I’m thinking a little more long term, let’s say, 5 years down the line. It might be good to have approximate years or dates to time when people had their experiences with these journals. We can probably assume that all (or most) of the stats you’re accumulating now are data from experiences in the last five years or so (depending on how old the Wiki data is). A lot can change in five years, but probably too much. But what about five years from now?

    Journals change their editors and procedures, and that can make a huge difference. (I believe that the editorial change in Mind has made a difference.) Also, if David Chalmers’ recent suggestion (on Leiter’s blog) is put into action, it will be useful to see how much faster people are getting initial verdicts from journals and whether people are more or less satisfied with referees.

  11. m z, on August 14th, 2009 at 5:09 am Said:

    please add:
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JBSP)

  12. Andrew Cullison, on August 14th, 2009 at 8:15 pm Said:

    Hi Andrew,

    I think that’s a good idea. I was thinking that sometime in the near future, we would have an established rule like: Only submit surveys for verdicts received within a year from today.

    The entries are all time stamped, so we would have some idea as to what time frame a sample ranges over.

    And I can eventually create spreadsheets that automatically output all of the information listed in the tables above, but restrict the inputs to a year from the current date.

  13. LP, on August 15th, 2009 at 10:31 am Said:

    Please post Kant-Studien and Perspectives on Science

  14. Andrew Cullison, on August 15th, 2009 at 10:52 am Said:

    All of the journals requested thus far are now up.

  15. ER, on August 16th, 2009 at 6:54 pm Said:

    Please add Res Publica, the official journal of the UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy:

    http://www.springer.com/philosophy/philosophy+of+law/journal/11158

  16. Anna Alexandrova, on August 17th, 2009 at 11:06 am Said:

    Thank you for an excellent resource, Andrew!

    Please add Philosophy of the Social Sciences:
    http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200913

    Best wishes

  17. C. F., on August 24th, 2009 at 9:43 pm Said:

    How about Environmental Ethics and Journal of Indian Philosophy?

  18. Andrew Cullison, on August 26th, 2009 at 8:52 pm Said:

    I just finished adding all requested journals. If you’ve requested a journal and it’s not appearing on the list, let me know.

  19. p. toner, on August 27th, 2009 at 8:51 am Said:

    Andrew,

    A couple more journals that I’d like to see added:

    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

    Thanks!

  20. Andrew Cullison, on August 28th, 2009 at 12:12 pm Said:

    Added

  21. Donald, on August 28th, 2009 at 10:09 pm Said:

    This is going to be a wonderful resource, thank you. Please consider adding Economics and Philosophy, Theoria, and Rationality and Society.

  22. Andrew Cullison, on August 29th, 2009 at 11:33 am Said:

    Thanks Donald. I just added those journals for you.

  23. gilbert, on September 5th, 2009 at 10:25 am Said:

    How about adding the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society? It seems that receive and review submitted papers.

  24. Andrew Cullison, on September 8th, 2009 at 11:26 pm Said:

    Gilbert,

    Just added it.

  25. nullo, on September 10th, 2009 at 10:58 am Said:

    why don’t you consider adding to the survery the length of the submission; avarage length might not be very useful, but checking the raw data on length might provide good info on unspoken word limits, both min and max

    i’ve just finished a short piece (less than 3,000 words); i don’t want to send it to analysis ’cause i’ve already published there and i would rather have some diversity. but i dont really know where esle to send it, ’cause im afraid most places will look down to it (even though its so obviously brilliant) just because it’s short

    so that kind of info was just what i was looking for in this otherwise really useful database

    cheers!

  26. gazza, on September 10th, 2009 at 8:21 pm Said:

    Can you add Public Affairs Quarterly?

    Thanks SO MUCH for doing this, by the way. It’ll be completely invaluable.

  27. Andrew Cullison, on September 14th, 2009 at 9:57 am Said:

    Forgot to mention that I added Public Affairs Quarterly…It’s up now.

  28. Marcin Milkowski, on September 24th, 2009 at 1:43 pm Said:

    Please add: Educational Philosophy and Theory, Studia Logica, Zeitschrift fur philosophische Forschung.

    Thanks!

  29. David, on October 4th, 2009 at 3:49 pm Said:

    Thank you for this extremely useful site. Would you please add Axiomathes?

  30. robert, on October 6th, 2009 at 11:13 pm Said:

    Please add Theory and Decision

  31. JR, on October 7th, 2009 at 11:50 pm Said:

    This is a very helpful site. You may want to add Analyse & Kritik.

  32. Andrew Cullison, on October 8th, 2009 at 9:02 am Said:

    Marcin, David, Robert, and JR

    Your requested journals have been added. Sorry for the delay.

  33. Matt, on October 9th, 2009 at 12:30 am Said:

    Hi Andrew,

    Will you add: Philosophical Investigations (http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0190-0536)?

    Thanks! Great resource!

  34. Kristina, on October 18th, 2009 at 8:31 am Said:

    Can you please add "Grazer Philosophische Studien"? Many thanks! http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=GPS#volumes

  35. Матвей, on October 18th, 2009 at 8:38 am Said:

    Да уж… Жизнь - как вождение велосипеда. Чтобы сохранить равновесие, ты должен двигаться.

  36. David, on October 18th, 2009 at 1:05 pm Said:

    I forgot to mention these: would you please also add Dialogue, Disputatio, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Sorites and Studia Philosophica Estonica?

  37. David, on October 18th, 2009 at 1:11 pm Said:

    ..oh, and South African Journal of Philosophy

  38. John, on October 29th, 2009 at 6:26 pm Said:

    Please add: Journal of Philosophy of Education, Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, International Journal for Philosophical Studies, International Philosophical Quarterly, International Studies in Philosophy, Midwest Studies in Philosophy,
    Educational Theory.

    Thank you.

  39. David, on November 3rd, 2009 at 7:17 pm Said:

    Please add these: Acta Philosophica Fennica, Crítica, Ethics and Global Politics, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Hyle: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Journal of Mind and Behavior, Organon F, Philosophica, Pluralist, Polish Journal of Philosophy, Russell: The Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives, Southwest Philosophy Review.

  40. Journal Survey « Manyul Im’s Chinese Philosophy Blog, on November 8th, 2009 at 11:22 pm Said:

    [...] philosophers to collectively gather useful information about philosophy journals,” here. I’ve advised him to add the main Chinese and comparative philosophy journals, in addition to [...]

  41. Jenn, on November 9th, 2009 at 2:28 pm Said:

    Please add:
    Film and Philosophy (https://webspace.utexas.edu/jan752/SPSCVA/journal.html)
    and
    Philosophy of Photography (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=186)

  42. Aaron, on November 9th, 2009 at 6:44 pm Said:

    Could you please add the journal Polis?

  43. Matthew Slater, on November 21st, 2009 at 11:35 am Said:

    Hi Andrew, this might be a pain or impossible (and anyway, it’s very minor), but I was just browsing some of the data and noticing that the windows (iframes?) that house the data are really narrow (despite the title of your site!). Would it be possible to generate a pop-out view or expand these windows so that visitors could see (most) all the data at once?

    Cheers,
    Matthew

  44. Andrew Cullison, on November 21st, 2009 at 1:13 pm Said:

    Hi Matthew,

    That’s not impossible, and it wouldn’t be a huge pain. I’ll try and implement that, but it will be time consuming so it may have to wait until I have a nice break (e.g. this winter or summer)

    I plan on adding a feature to each survey page that allows users to add useful info about each journal in another table. That would be a good time to implement this feature request of yours.

  45. Steve, on November 30th, 2009 at 5:07 pm Said:

    Great site, could you include Ethics and Information Technology?

  46. Orsi Reich, on December 30th, 2009 at 6:00 am Said:

    Could you include Polity?

  47. Raffaele Rodogno, on January 19th, 2010 at 10:03 am Said:

    Hi, I thought Neuroethics could be added to the list.

  48. Tanya Rodriguez, on January 20th, 2010 at 5:01 am Said:

    Please add PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE.

  49. Sally Haslanger, on January 26th, 2010 at 6:00 pm Said:

    I would like to have Hypatia added please.

  50. Patrick Stokes, on January 27th, 2010 at 11:28 am Said:

    This is a really fantastic resource. Would you consider adding Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences?

  51. Michael Cholbi, on February 4th, 2010 at 5:59 pm Said:

    Kant-Studien is here, but not the Kantian Review. Thanks!

  52. Mark Alfano, on February 5th, 2010 at 8:21 am Said:

    Could you add the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy?

    https://www.ffri.hr/phil/casopis/

    Thanks!

    Mark

  53. Josh May, on February 9th, 2010 at 3:51 pm Said:

    Hey, Andy. Could you add the Review of Philosophy and Psychology (formerly European Review of Philosophy)? I could add some data for that.

  54. David Teira, on March 5th, 2010 at 2:33 pm Said:

    Great project: will you please add http://www.ehu.es/theoria?

    If you want to disambiguate, use THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science

    best
    David

  55. Anna Christina Ribeiro, on March 6th, 2010 at 8:21 am Said:

    Andrew,

    Thank you so much for this invaluable resource. I wonder if it would be possible to add little boxes to the left of each journal title on the title list so that we could select a bunch of titles and generate a comparative spreadsheet. This would be so useful, especially as the list grows, and there are so many sub-specialties.

    Best,
    Anna

  56. Mark Alfano, on April 2nd, 2010 at 8:44 am Said:

    Also, could I ask you to add the Journal of Nietzsche Studies? http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/philosophy/jns/

  57. Jason, on April 9th, 2010 at 7:45 pm Said:

    Hi Andrew,

    Thanks very much for all your hard work on this. I’m pleased that you list both Bioethics and the Journal of Medical Ethics. I was wondering if you could also add the Kennedy Institute Journal of Ethics, The Hastings Center Report, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics?

    Best regards,

    Jason

  58. John, on May 21st, 2010 at 10:09 pm Said:

    Would you add (1) Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology and (2) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences to the list?

  59. Ori, on May 25th, 2010 at 6:30 pm Said:

    Seeing that you list Law and Philosophy and Legal Theory you may consider also adding the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence to your list.

  60. Chris, on June 21st, 2010 at 2:42 pm Said:

    Could you add ‘Comparative Philosophy’ - a new journal published at San Jose State, webpage: http://www.comparativephilosophy.org/index.php/ComparativePhilosophy/

    Thanks!

  61. Lauren, on June 28th, 2010 at 11:20 am Said:

    Could you add Hypatia? thanks.

  62. SM, on July 20th, 2010 at 12:14 pm Said:

    Please add: ‘Neuroethics,’ ‘Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics,’ ‘Developing World Bioethics,’ and ‘Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal’

    thx!

  63. C, on August 5th, 2010 at 7:06 pm Said:

    Please add Philosophy Today and I second Hypatia.

  64. C, on August 5th, 2010 at 7:07 pm Said:

    Constellations

  65. Chris, on August 20th, 2010 at 3:02 pm Said:

    Could you add Philosophical Frontiers to the list? http://www.philosophicalfrontiers.com.

    By the way, this is an excellent resource. Thank you!

  66. Madeline, on September 8th, 2010 at 8:13 pm Said:

    A great resource. Could you please add the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics to your list.

    Thanks!

  67. Jeremy, on October 1st, 2010 at 6:30 pm Said:

    I would also like to see Hypatia on this list. Also, I would love to be able to compare journals against each other more easily–for example, by being able to sort journals by acceptance rate, time to submission, etc.

    Thanks.

  68. Jonathan, on October 4th, 2010 at 5:56 am Said:

    This is very interesting. Are you going to introduce a feature to sort the journals according to their ratings? I think some of the sample sizes are large enough to make this a worthwhile exercise.

  69. Andrew Cullison, on October 5th, 2010 at 6:52 am Said:

    @Jonathan,

    I will be adding some kind of feature like that.

    @everyone who had requested a journal be added:

    My apologies for delays, I plan to add all requested journals this weekend

  70. Jaja, on October 12th, 2010 at 4:51 am Said:

    I think Ethics and International Affairs ought to be here

  71. Kate Padgett Walsh, on October 12th, 2010 at 3:29 pm Said:

    Could you add The Journal of Speculative Philosophy? Thanks.

  72. S Johnson, on November 12th, 2010 at 9:33 am Said:

    Would you add Neuroethics pls?

  73. S Johnson, on November 12th, 2010 at 9:34 am Said:

    Add Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal pls.

  74. SCOTT, on November 13th, 2010 at 8:14 am Said:

    Hypatia and Journal of Global Ethics. Thanks for a very valuable service.

  75. Kenny, on November 21st, 2010 at 9:06 pm Said:

    Journal of Scottish Philosophy (http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/jsp)

    Thanks!

  76. MC, on January 7th, 2011 at 12:39 pm Said:

    Could you add an entry for Teaching Philosophy?

  77. Jack Johnson, on January 30th, 2011 at 1:26 am Said:

    How about “History and Philosophy of Logic”? I’ve got some experience with it that I’d be glad to share.

    Thanks for a great service!

    JJ

  78. Jon, on March 2nd, 2011 at 9:10 pm Said:

    please add (for completeness!):

    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences

  79. Metaphysics Man, on March 23rd, 2011 at 5:47 pm Said:

    Agreeing with Jon ^ Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, please.

  80. Tim, on April 4th, 2011 at 2:00 pm Said:

    Another request for Teaching Philosophy. Thanks for the great service you contribute!

  81. Gus, on April 20th, 2011 at 4:50 am Said:

    Thanks for the great service.

    Could you add the new “European Journal for the Philosophy of Science” (http://www.springerlink.com/content/1879-4912/)?

  82. Maria, on March 3rd, 2012 at 11:31 am Said:

    Andrew, this is really great and helpful. Just want to say thanks!

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