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Best Philosophy journals

889 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Philosophy. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 222 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 AJOB Neuroscience 12.3 99th Q1 – – No
2 AI and Society 10.9 99th Q1 ESCI – No
3 Journal of Political Philosophy 10.5 99th Q1 – – No
4 International Journal of Social Robotics 9.8 99th Q1 SCIE – No
5 International Journal of Ethics and Systems 9.7 99th Q1 ESCI C No
6 Philosophy and Technology 9.6 99th Q1 – – No
7 Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 9.1 99th Q1 SSCI – No
8 Minds and Machines 8.9 99th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Cognition, Technology and Work 8.2 99th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
10 Science Technology and Human Values 8.1 98th Q1 SSCI A No
11 Al-Ihkam: Jurnal Hukum dan Pranata Sosial 7.8 98th Q1 – – Yes
12 Political Psychology 7.6 98th Q1 SSCI – No
13 Business Ethics Quarterly 7.5 98th Q1 SSCI A No
14 Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 6.9 98th Q1 ESCI B No
15 Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 6.3 98th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
16 Neuroethics 6.2 98th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
17 Journal of Academic Ethics 6 98th Q1 ESCI – No
18 Mind and Language 6 98th Q1 SSCI – No
19 Asian Journal of Business Ethics 5.9 97th Q1 ESCI C No
20 Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 5.9 97th Q1 SSCI – No
21 Thinking and Reasoning 5.7 97th Q1 SSCI – No
22 Philosophical Review 5.6 97th Q1 AHCI – No
23 Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 5.5 97th Q1 AHCI – No
24 Research Ethics 5.5 97th Q1 ESCI – Yes
25 International Theory 5.4 97th Q1 SSCI – Yes
26 Journal of Critical Realism 5.4 97th Q1 ESCI – No
27 Nous 5.4 97th Q1 AHCI – No
28 Bioethics 5.1 96th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
29 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 5.1 96th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
30 Journal of Humanistic Psychology 5.1 96th Q1 SSCI – No
31 Philosophy Compass 5 96th Q1 AHCI – No
32 Review of Philosophy and Psychology 5 96th Q1 ESCI – No
33 Environmental Values 4.8 96th Q1 SSCI – No
34 Teoria de la Educacion 4.6 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
35 Memory, Mind and Media 4.5 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
36 Social Epistemology 4.5 96th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
37 Nazhruna: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam 4.5 95th Q1 – – Yes
38 Journal of Sociolinguistics 4.3 95th Q1 SSCI – No
39 Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 4.2 95th Q1 SSCI – No
40 Global Constitutionalism 4.1 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
41 Public Health Ethics 4.1 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
42 Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 4 95th Q1 ESCI – No
43 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 3.9 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
44 Canadian Journal of Philosophy 3.9 95th Q1 AHCI – No
45 Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom) 3.8 95th Q1 SSCI – No
46 Ethics 3.8 94th Q1 AHCI, SSCI A No
47 AJOB Empirical Bioethics 3.7 94th Q1 – – No
48 Ethics, Policy and Environment 3.7 94th Q1 ESCI – No
49 Ethics and Society 3.6 94th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
50 Food Ethics 3.6 94th Q1 – – No
51 Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 3.6 94th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
52 Journal of School Health 3.6 94th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
53 Philosophical Psychology 3.6 94th Q1 SSCI – No
54 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 3.6 93rd Q1 AHCI – No
55 Journal of Social Philosophy 3.6 93rd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
56 Mind 3.6 93rd Q1 AHCI – No
57 Public Integrity 3.6 93rd Q1 ESCI – No
58 Politics, Philosophy and Economics 3.5 93rd Q1 SSCI B No
59 Biology and Philosophy 3.5 93rd Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
60 Reflective Practice 3.5 93rd Q1 ESCI – No
61 Acta Biotheoretica 3.4 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
62 Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura 3.4 93rd Q1 – – No
63 Postdigital Science and Education (Switzerland) 3.4 92nd Q1 – – No
64 Ulumuna 3.4 92nd Q1 – – Yes
65 Episteme 3.3 92nd Q1 AHCI – No
66 Hastings Center Report 3.3 92nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
67 Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 3.3 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
68 Intellectual Economics 3.3 92nd Q1 – – No
69 Argumentation 3.2 92nd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
70 European Journal for Philosophy of Science 3.2 92nd Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
71 Human Geography (United Kingdom) 3.2 92nd Q1 – – No
72 Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 3.1 91st Q1 ESCI – No
73 Monash Bioethics Review 3.1 91st Q1 ESCI – No
74 Topoi 3.1 91st Q1 AHCI – No
75 Asian Bioethics Review 3 91st Q1 ESCI – No
76 Australasian Journal of Philosophy 3 91st Q1 AHCI – No
77 Inquiry (United Kingdom) 3 91st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
78 Linguistics and Philosophy 3 91st Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
79 Philosophical Papers 3 91st Q1 AHCI – No
80 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 3 91st Q1 AHCI – No
81 Erkenntnis 2.9 90th Q1 AHCI – No
82 Global Bioethics 2.9 90th Q1 – – Yes
83 Hypatia 2.9 90th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
84 Journal of Philosophy 2.9 90th Q1 AHCI – No
85 Medical Humanities 2.9 90th Q1 AHCI – No
86 Philosophers Imprint 2.9 90th Q1 AHCI – Yes
87 Review of Religious Research 2.9 90th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
88 Canadian Slavonic Papers 2.8 90th Q1 ESCI – No
89 Philosophical Quarterly 2.8 90th Q1 AHCI – No
90 Journal of Applied Philosophy 2.7 89th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
91 Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2.7 89th Q1 AHCI – No
92 Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur'an dan Hadis 2.7 89th Q1 – – Yes
93 Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 2.7 89th Q1 AHCI – No
94 Journal for General Philosophy of Science 2.6 89th Q1 AHCI – No
95 Knowledge Cultures 2.6 89th Q1 – – No
96 Nous-Supplement: Philosophical Perspectives 2.6 89th Q1 AHCI – No
97 Philosophical Explorations 2.6 89th Q1 AHCI – No
98 Pragmatics 2.6 89th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
99 Economics and Philosophy 2.6 88th Q1 SSCI A No
100 Critical Philosophy of Race 2.6 88th Q1 ESCI – No
101 Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 2.6 88th Q1 – – Yes
102 Gender and Language 2.6 88th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
103 Journal of Philosophical Logic 2.6 88th Q1 AHCI – No
104 Mortality 2.6 88th Q1 ESCI – No
105 Philosophical Studies 2.6 88th Q1 AHCI – No
106 Philosophy and the Mind Sciences 2.6 88th Q1 – – Yes
107 Philosophy of Science 2.6 88th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
108 Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion 2.5 87th Q1 ESCI C No
109 International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences 2.5 87th Q1 ESCI – Yes
110 Journal of Linguistics 2.5 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
111 Philosophical Topics 2.5 87th Q1 – – No
112 Text and Talk 2.5 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
113 Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii 2.5 87th Q1 – – Yes
114 Diachronica 2.4 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
115 Journal of Consciousness Studies 2.4 87th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
116 Synthese 2.4 87th Q1 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
117 Analyse und Kritik 2.4 86th Q1 – – No
118 Ethics and International Affairs 2.4 86th Q1 SSCI – No
119 Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 2.4 86th Q1 SSCI – No
120 Monist 2.4 86th Q1 AHCI – No
121 Munaddhomah 2.4 86th Q1 – – No
122 Res Publica 2.4 86th Q1 AHCI – No
123 SpringerBriefs in Ethics 2.4 86th Q1 – – No
124 International Journal of Children's Spirituality 2.3 86th Q1 AHCI – No
125 Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 2.3 86th Q1 ESCI – No
126 Constitutional Political Economy 2.3 85th Q1 ESCI B No
127 Aries 2.3 85th Q1 ESCI – No
128 Ethics and Social Welfare 2.3 85th Q1 ESCI – No
129 Foundations of Physics 2.3 85th Q1 SCIE – No
130 Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 2.3 85th Q1 AHCI – No
131 History and Theory 2.2 85th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
132 Human Studies 2.2 85th Q1 SSCI – No
133 Informal Logic 2.2 85th Q1 AHCI – Yes
134 Philosophy and Social Criticism 2.2 85th Q1 AHCI – No
135 Clinical Ethics 2.2 84th Q1 – – No
136 Journal of Human Values 2.2 84th Q1 ESCI – No
137 Journal of Ethics 2.1 84th Q1 ESCI – No
138 Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 2.1 84th Q1 AHCI – No
139 Modern Intellectual History 2.1 84th Q1 AHCI – No
140 Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 2 84th Q1 ESCI – No
141 Obrazovanie i Nauka 2 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
142 Review of Symbolic Logic 2 84th Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
143 Studies in Philosophy and Education 2 84th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
144 World Futures 2 83rd Q1 – – No
145 British Journal of Aesthetics 1.9 83rd Q1 AHCI – No
146 Democratic Theory 1.9 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
147 Journal of Logic, Language and Information 1.9 83rd Q1 AHCI, SCIE – No
148 Journal of Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality 1.9 83rd Q1 SSCI – No
149 Moral Philosophy and Politics 1.9 83rd Q1 ESCI – No
150 Journal of Philosophy of Education 1.8 83rd Q1 SSCI – No
151 Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 1.8 83rd Q1 – – No
152 Review of Radical Political Economics 1.8 82nd Q1 SSCI B No
153 American Philosophical Quarterly 1.8 82nd Q1 AHCI – No
154 Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie 1.8 82nd Q1 AHCI – No
155 British Journal for the History of Philosophy 1.8 82nd Q1 AHCI – No
156 Journal of Military Ethics 1.8 82nd Q1 – – No
157 Journal of Moral Philosophy 1.8 82nd Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
158 Legal Theory 1.8 82nd Q1 ESCI – No
159 Sophia (Ecuador) 1.8 82nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
160 XLinguae 1.8 82nd Q1 – – No
161 Argumentation Library 1.7 81st Q1 – – No
162 Christian Bioethics 1.7 81st Q1 AHCI – No
163 Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 1.7 81st Q1 – – No
164 Ergo 1.7 81st Q1 AHCI – Yes
165 Filosofia Theoretica 1.7 81st Q1 – – No
166 Nous-Supplement: Philosophical Issues 1.7 81st Q1 AHCI – No
167 Philosophical Studies Series 1.7 81st Q1 – – No
168 Philosophies 1.7 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
169 Revus 1.7 81st Q1 – – No
170 Analytic Philosophy 1.7 80th Q1 AHCI – No
171 Husserl Studies 1.7 80th Q1 AHCI – No
172 Journal of Value Inquiry 1.7 80th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
173 Kantian Review 1.7 80th Q1 AHCI – No
174 Ethik in der Medizin 1.6 80th Q1 SCIE – No
175 European Journal of Philosophy 1.6 80th Q1 AHCI – No
176 Journal of Global Ethics 1.6 80th Q1 – – No
177 Utilitas 1.6 80th Q1 AHCI – No
178 Criminal Law and Philosophy 1.6 79th Q1 ESCI – No
179 Journal of Contemporary Religion 1.6 79th Q1 AHCI – No
180 Journal of the History of Philosophy 1.6 79th Q1 AHCI – No
181 Politics, Religion and Ideology 1.6 79th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
182 Purushartha 1.6 79th Q1 – – No
183 Religious Studies 1.6 79th Q1 AHCI – No
184 Scientia et Fides 1.6 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
185 Secularism and Nonreligion 1.6 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
186 Society and Animals 1.6 79th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
187 University of New South Wales Law Journal 1.5 78th Q1 ESCI A No
188 Environmental Ethics 1.5 78th Q1 SSCI – No
189 Ratio 1.5 78th Q1 AHCI – No
190 Speculum 1.5 78th Q1 AHCI – No
191 Afkar 1.4 78th Q1 ESCI – No
192 Asian Studies 1.4 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
193 Configurations 1.4 78th Q1 AHCI – No
194 Jurisprudence 1.4 78th Q1 ESCI – No
195 Southern Journal of Philosophy 1.4 78th Q1 AHCI – No
196 Radical Philosophy 1.4 77th Q1 SSCI – No
197 Business and Professional Ethics Journal 1.3 77th Q1 ESCI C No
198 Analysis 1.3 77th Q1 AHCI – No
199 Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 1.3 77th Q1 AHCI – Yes
200 Journal of Symbolic Logic 1.3 77th Q1 SCIE – No
201 Law and Philosophy 1.3 77th Q1 SSCI – No
202 Law, Probability and Risk 1.3 77th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
203 Metaphilosophy 1.3 77th Q1 AHCI – No
204 Studia Hegeliana 1.3 77th Q1 – – Yes
205 Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1.3 76th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
206 Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 1.3 76th Q1 SCIE – No
207 Dao 1.3 76th Q1 AHCI – No
208 Diametros 1.3 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
209 Legal Ethics 1.3 76th Q1 ESCI – No
210 Mind and Society 1.3 76th Q1 – – No
211 Philosophy 1.3 76th Q1 AHCI – No
212 Recerca 1.3 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
213 Theoria (Spain) 1.3 76th Q1 AHCI – Yes
214 Apeiron 1.2 75th Q1 ESCI – No
215 Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy 1.2 75th Q1 – – No
216 Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 1.2 75th Q1 ESCI – No
217 Ethics and Education 1.2 75th Q1 ESCI – No
218 International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1.2 75th Q1 AHCI – No
219 Journal of Philosophical Economics: Reflections on Economic and Social Issues 1.2 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
220 Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society 1.2 75th Q1 – – No
221 Revista Espanola de Educacion Comparada 1.2 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
222 Studies in Somaesthetics 1.2 75th Q1 – – No
223 Estudios de Filosofia (Colombia) 1.2 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
224 Journal of Aesthetics and Culture 1.2 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
225 Mind and Matter 1.2 74th Q2 – – No
226 Natural Language Semantics 1.2 74th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
227 Philosophia Mathematica 1.2 74th Q2 AHCI, SCIE – No
228 Technoetic Arts 1.2 74th Q2 ESCI – No
229 Asian Journal of Philosophy 1.1 74th Q2 ESCI – No
230 Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 1.1 74th Q2 – – No
231 American Journal of Islam and Society 1.1 73rd Q2 – – Yes
232 Ethics and the Environment 1.1 73rd Q2 ESCI – No
233 Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives on its Development 1.1 73rd Q2 – – No
234 Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 1.1 73rd Q2 AHCI – No
235 Logic and Logical Philosophy 1.1 73rd Q2 ESCI – No
236 Philosophia (United States) 1.1 73rd Q2 AHCI – No
237 Philosophical Investigations 1.1 73rd Q2 AHCI – No
238 Russian Sociological Review 1.1 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
239 Social Research 1.1 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
240 Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology 1.1 73rd Q2 – – No
241 Global Philosophy 1.1 72nd Q2 AHCI – No
242 Practical Theology 1.1 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
243 Sophia 1.1 72nd Q2 AHCI – No
244 Journal of Sufi Studies 1 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
245 Journal of the History of Ideas 1 72nd Q2 AHCI – No
246 Konstantinove Listy 1 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
247 Pharos Journal of Theology 1 72nd Q2 – – Yes
248 Philosophy of Music Education Review 1 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
249 Australian Journal of Human Rights 1 71st Q2 – B No
250 Acta Analytica 1 71st Q2 AHCI – No
251 Beijing International Review of Education 1 71st Q2 – – No
252 Critical Horizons 1 71st Q2 ESCI – No
253 European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 1 71st Q2 ESCI – Yes
254 Human Affairs 1 71st Q2 ESCI – No
255 Indo-Iranian Journal 1 71st Q2 AHCI – No
256 Krisis 1 71st Q2 – – Yes
257 Theoria (Sweden) 1 71st Q2 AHCI – No
258 Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum 1 70th Q2 – – Yes
259 Bulletin of the Section of Logic 1 70th Q2 ESCI – Yes
260 Frontiers Collection 1 70th Q2 – – No
261 Kant Yearbook 1 70th Q2 ESCI – No
262 Linacre Quarterly 1 70th Q2 ESCI – No
263 Philosophy and Rhetoric 1 70th Q2 AHCI – No
264 Brill's Plato Studies Series 0.9 70th Q2 – – No
265 International Journal of Philosophical Studies 0.9 70th Q2 AHCI – No
266 Trans/Form/Acao 0.9 70th Q2 AHCI – Yes
267 Ethical Perspectives 0.9 69th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
268 Ethics in Progress 0.9 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
269 Foucault Studies 0.9 69th Q2 – – Yes
270 Journal of Applied Arts and Health 0.9 69th Q2 – – No
271 Mediterranea 0.9 69th Q2 – – Yes
272 Russian Psychological Journal 0.9 69th Q2 – – Yes
273 Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 0.9 69th Q2 – – No
274 Texts and Studies on the Qur'an 0.9 69th Q2 – – No
275 Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce 0.9 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
276 Canadian Journal of Bioethics 0.9 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
277 Dia-noesis 0.9 68th Q2 – – No
278 International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 0.9 68th Q2 SSCI – No
279 Journal of Philosophical Research 0.9 68th Q2 AHCI – No
280 Journal of Social Ontology 0.9 68th Q2 – – Yes
281 Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 0.9 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
282 Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae 0.9 68th Q2 – – Yes
283 Studies in Christian Ethics 0.9 68th Q2 AHCI – No
284 Theory and Event 0.9 68th Q2 – – No
285 Archive for Mathematical Logic 0.9 67th Q2 SCIE – No
286 Asian Philosophy 0.9 67th Q2 AHCI – No
287 Doxa. Cuadernos de Filosofia del Derecho 0.9 67th Q2 ESCI – Yes
288 Feminist Formations 0.9 67th Q2 – – No
289 Filosofija, Sociologija 0.9 67th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
290 Issues in Business Ethics 0.9 67th Q2 – – No
291 Kantian Journal 0.9 67th Q2 – – Yes
292 SATS 0.9 67th Q2 – – No
293 Comparative and Continental Philosophy 0.8 67th Q2 ESCI – No
294 Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 0.8 66th Q2 – C Yes
295 Ancient Philosophy 0.8 66th Q2 – – No
296 Cinta de Moebio 0.8 66th Q2 ESCI – Yes
297 Etikk i Praksis 0.8 66th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – Yes
298 Haser 0.8 66th Q2 ESCI – No
299 Hegel Bulletin 0.8 66th Q2 – – No
300 Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning 0.8 66th Q2 – – No

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