A philosopher who has “long been skeptical of journal rankings” based on polls or Scopus data has developed a new way of assessing philosophy journals: by how frequently their articles are cited in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Tadeusz Ciecierski, a philosopher at the University of Warsaw, describes his method:
The idea is simple: rank journals by citations to their articles in the bibliographies of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP). The counting rule is one distinct paper per encyclopedia entry: repeated references to the same paper within one entry count once, while the same paper cited in five different entries counts five times, etc. Books and chapters in edited volumes are outside the intended scope. There are nine variants: SEP and IEP combined, SEP alone, and IEP alone, each covering papers published in 1900–2026, 1945–2026, or 1990–2026.
Ciecierski notes that this is a work in progress and that he is continuing to revise it and comb it for errors.
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