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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.6), DOAJ. Published by Ruhr-University of Bochum.
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ISSN 2699-0369Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ruhr-University of Bochum
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 102 / 891 | 88th | Q1 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 48 / 118 | 59th | Q2 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 82 / 129 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.6.
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 102 of 891), Q2 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 48 of 118) and Q3 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 82 of 129), by CiteScore 2025.
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q1, 88th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.647, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is published by Ruhr-University of Bochum. Its ISSN is 2699-0369.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 1.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #106 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 41. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.5%), United Kingdom (15.5%) and Germany (11.3%).
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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