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Which journals have articles that are cited the most in the Stanford and Internet Encyclopedias of Philosophy?

Brian Leiter

I know you wanted to know, and so Tadeusz Ciecierski, a philosopher at the University of Warsaw, decided to compile the data. Hard to know what to make of the results, except that older journals that publish a lot (looking at you Synthese [founded 1936, publishes more than 400 articles per year] and, to a lesser extent, Philosophical Studies [founded 1950, but publishing more than 150 articles per year]) have an advantage. (Contrast Philosophical Review, which is older, but publishes only about 40 articles per year on average.) Other observations welcome.

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One response to “Which journals have articles that are cited the most in the Stanford and Internet Encyclopedias of Philosophy?”

  1. Allen Hazen

    There are some errors (not surprising in something of this size!): down at the bottom of the journal list, among the journals with only one or two citations in the encyclopedias, I saw journals with titles beginning with multiple question marks (so, one person or machine couldn’t read the actual title and put in ? for unreadable letters) and at least one author of a book whose name was interpreted as a journal title.
    My suspicion is that, statistically, this sort of thing in unimportant, and that it doesn’t much affect the “ranking” of the top few hundred journals.

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