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Philosophy Journal Insight Project

Sam Andrews (University of Birmingham) writes in:

I lead the Philosophy Journal Insight Project [pjip.carrd.co]and believe that it might be of interest to readers at the Philosophers' Cocoon. 

The main resource of the project is a spreadsheet that provides a comprehensive overview of around 50 philosophy journals. It contains:

1) Standardisation of key information about journal submission; word counts, peer review anonymity, open access status, etc.

2) Collection of journal rankings from blogs and ranking sites; Leiter Rankings, SJR Rankings, SNIP Rankings, etc.

3) Estimates drawn from journals and APA surveys for acceptance rates, comment chance, average days for a desk rejection, average days for external review, etc.

4) Compilation of various impact statistics; total citations, CiteScore percentile, etc.

The site also contains a resources section that links to various places relevant to journal submission.

This is great service to the profession. Do check it out!

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One response to “Philosophy Journal Insight Project”

  1. Associate prof

    Though this is a nice idea in principle, I’m not sure it will accomplish all that much. First, the apa has a journal survey, and it would take a while to surpass its data. Second, a lot of the info is available on journals’ websites. Finally, journals often change their practices. For example, Mind used to be terrible, but now it seems well run. By the time sufficient data gets uploaded, in many cases it will be outdated.

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