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Journal for General Philosophy of Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.6), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 0925-4560Verify ISSN ↗1572-8587Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 95 / 891 | 89th | Q1 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 33 / 254 | 87th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 99 / 286 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1986, 1980), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.6.
Journal for General Philosophy of Science is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 95 of 891), Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 33 of 254) and Q2 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 99 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal for General Philosophy of Science is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.474, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 25.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal for General Philosophy of Science is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 0925-4560 and its online ISSN is 1572-8587.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal for General Philosophy of Science has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #274 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal for General Philosophy of Science published 62 papers in 2025. 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.
In its latest 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (16.8%), United States (15%) and Spain (8.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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