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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), WoS AHCI/SCIE/SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 10 / 1936 | 99th | Q1 |
| Philosophy | 30 / 891 | 96th | Q1 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 11 / 254 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1950–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is Q1 in History (rank 10 of 1936), Q1 in Philosophy (rank 30 of 891) and Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 11 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.909, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 75.
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0007-0882 and its online ISSN is 1464-3537.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science has an h-index of 134 and a 2-year mean of 2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 113. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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