About this journal
Aims and scope
Philosophical Explorations aims to publish outstanding articles in the philosophy of mind and action, with an emphasis on issues concerning the interrelations between cognition and agency.
Contributions are welcomed in the area of the philosophy of mind and action and related disciplines such as moral psychology, ethics, philosophical anthropology, social philosophy, political philosophy and philosophy of the social sciences. The journal also welcomes contributions of an interdisciplinary kind, establishing bridges between philosophy and, for example, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology, and political science.
Peer Review Policy:
All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous double anonymized peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 52K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.9 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.0 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.354 (2023) SNIP
- 0.499 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 18 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 16 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 17% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITORS
Léon de Bruin, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Annemarie Kalis, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Lieke Asma, Munich School of Philosophy, Germany
Daphne Brandenburg, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Lucy Campbell, University of Warwick, UK
Dorothea Debus, University of Konstanz, Germany
Víctor Fernandez Castro, University of Granada, Spain
Thor Grünbaum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Erasmus Mayr, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Leonhard Menges, University of Salzburg, Austria
Kengo Miyazono, Hokkaido University, Japan
Miguel Segundo-Ortin, University of Murcia, Spain
Joshua Shepherd, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
András Szigeti, Linköping University, Sweden
Kevin Timpe, Calvin University, USA
Mercedes Valmisa, Gettysburg College, USA
Hong Yu Wong, University of Tübingen, Germany
Abstracting and indexing
Philosophical Explorations is currently abstracted/indexed in:
British Humanities Index; Current Abstracts; OCLC; Philosopher's Index; Philosophy Research Index; SCOPUS; Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Open access
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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Inquiry - £43/$74
International Journal of Philosophical Studies - £33/$55
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Special issue Guidelines (proposal)
1. The title of the proposed special issue
2. A brief introduction to the main topic(s) of the special issue and an explanation of its philosophical and scientific relevance (max. 500 words)
3. A breakdown of the table of contents of the special issue: an overview of the proposed articles and their authors, including an abstract for each article
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5. Brief credentials of the proposed editors of the special issue (in addition to full curriculum vitae to be provided as a separate document)
Past virtual special issues
Self Knowledge
OA Supplements
The Normative Significance of Intentions
Guest Editors: Ulrike Heuer & Matthew Noah Smith
False but Useful Beliefs
Guest Editors: Lisa Bortolotti & Ema Sullivan-Bissett
Previously published special issues
21.2 Enactivism, Representationalism, and Predictive Processing
Guest Editors: Krzysztof Dolega, Luke Roelofs & Tobias Schlicht
21.1 Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe
Guest Editor: Constantine Sandis
20.2 Cognitive Ontologies in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Psychiatry
Guest Editors: Annelli Janssen, Colin Klein & Marc Slors
19.2 Conscious Thinking and Cognitive Phenomenology
Guest Editors: Marta Jorba & Dermot Moran
18.2 Self-knowledge in perspective
Guest Editors: Fleur Jongepier & Derek Strijbos
17.3 The Second Person
Guest Editor: Naomi Eilan
16.2 Basic Desert, Reactive Attitudes and Free Will
Guest Editors: Derk Pereboom & Maureen Sie
15.2 Extended Cognition and Epistemology
Guest Editors: Andy Clark, Duncan Pritchard & Krist Vaesen
14.3 Science and Normative Authority
Guest Editor: Jeanette Kennett
13.3 Symposium on Disjunctivism: Part One
Guest Editor: Marcus Willaschek
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