Of those, 16.4% were women and 83.6% were men. Was a German social scientist who in 1939 took "the present political institutions as given" and subjected them to "empirical analysis" for this reason by itself a liberal? The Acceptability of Using a Lottery to Allocate Research Funding: A Survey of Applicants. To figure out the normative claim I think we should have this conversation (which I take it you agree with), and yes, it will definitely have to depend on commitments. Calculating Acceptance Rate Here Ill cap the scale at 15 months for the sake of visibility: And for the ridgeplot well return to a cap of 12 months: Again, remember that the ridgeplot reflects out-of-date information for some journals. There is a big difference between empirical and non-empirical work. My general impression from talking to colleagues in the Humanities disciplines is that the journal acceptance rates are pretty bad all around. This issue has a similar feel to another Ive been considering recentlythe less inflated grades philosophy instructors tend to give, relative to other disciplines (Im guessing this is a general trend, but I only have evidence its true for some universities). Report, Slightly off topic, I know, but I think that the lottery problem would be helped by having editors who were more pro-active in their judgment about referee reports. China has a very specific history, one that other countries are very unlikely to emulate. Philosophy Architecture Journal of Philosophy the Visual Arts. This dead period is right around when the surveys were handed over to the APA. P.P.S. (Thanks for the interesting post nonetheless. For my tenure decision, I included stats on journal acceptances to make the case that publishing in philosophy is more difficult than other fields.Report, At UW-Madison we have done a good job of educating our external tenure & promotion committee about whats expected for philosophers. article whereas one is only feminist philosophy. I have not found this to be the case at all. $18.26. Gender doesnt seem to affect acceptance rate. Those journals would then be in a better position to provide informed refereeing and to assess whether they ought to be publishing more (or fewer!) I gather from talking to folks in other departments that the role of generalist journals in philosophy is much bigger in philosophy than it is in most of academia. Law and Philosophy is a forum for the publication of work in law and philosophy which is of common interest to members of the two disciplines of . That high percentage is most likely due to the existence, unfortunately, of predatory journals. It is not unusual for a top tier journal to have a 2-5% acceptance rate and most reputable journals have no more than 15-20%. It is hard to think of a better recipe for cultivating misanthropic capriciousness. by Dr. Sharma. Introducing Variable-Rate Rule-Utilitarianism. I do think the tenure rate at Penn was very low by university standards for some time, but now is much better.Report, The relevant parties I was describing are external (i.e., *not* philosophers in the know about the difficulty of publishing in at least highly ranked journals, or about the more difficult grading by philosophy instructors). @Shen-Yi Liao: I can only assume that you have precognitive powers, since when you posted this I dont think Id commented publicly in my life on gender construction, and now I seem to be doing it. So remember the other day when we saw that over 50% of philosophy articles were *never cited*? A lot of journals publish data about submissions and acceptance-rates annually, but locating the information in back issues can be quite time-consuming, especially when a tenure candidate has published in 8-10 different journals. So weve heard its (a) the referees and (b) the low journal acceptance rate. As to higher level tenure and promotion committees, I have a lot to say about that on another occasion.Report. The APA can make recommendations (they cant set standards) bu you have to have some reason to think that university administrators and other departments will care. Be alerted of all new items appearing on this page. It is thus problematic from the point of view of both cosmopolitan and internationalist theories of justice. So, I was referring to college and university Promotion and Tenure committees (which are composed of faculty from various departments) and administrators making P&T decisions, above the departmental level. I call this new version 'variable-rate rule-utilitarianism'. So it would not help.Report, The Washington University Review of Philosophy is seeking articles for its third edition. Theyre very helpful for giving junior scholars an indication of which journals review papers promptly and which take a long time. Ive reviewed a few papers, but not really that many. Given that philosophy seems to create this kind of problem, it would be really useful to have editors who are more pro-active and say, for example, ignore referee 1 or whatever. You will still be able to make changes before your final submission. Of course, even if one is completely on board with the point about dissemination of knowledge, they still need publications if they are to have a career.Report, Serious additional question: for those who cannot get a work published in a journal, what stops you from just publishing it online? Also, it will halt the excessive nature of the arms race; with that higher acceptance rate people will be less impressed by any extra publication beyond what is taken to be the new normal. Journal of the Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP). The Journal of Speculative Philosophy publishes systematic and interpretive essays about basic philosophical questions. Almost all of the providers had heard of the term brain death. More than half have encountered presumed brain dead patients. I dont believe it, that is, I dont believe Annas assertion above that for the alleged 10% of papers that *do* get published theres a further 10% that are equally good that dont. Synthese is a philosophy journal focusing on contemporary issues in epistemology, philosophy of science, and related fields. But the comparison to empirical fields has some limitations. If I were to drop my floor of acceptability by a couple of storeys (by recommending acceptance for three times as many papers) then I would be letting through a lot of papers which in my opinion did not have anything original, worthwhile or intelligent to say and were often stodgy, turgid and badly written into the bargain (Of course if more papers were published then more papers would be no worse than a lot of the stuff that gets published but I can get around this problem by rigidification: I say we should not be publishing papers that are worse than many of the papers that *currently* get published, something that we could reasonably expect if the number of published papers were trebled.) And the survey responses align much better with Minds reputation during that time period than the 2 month average listed in the APA/BPA report. Direct download (2 more) Export citation Bookmark 8 citations. I mean, this isnt actually hard. The results of the, A substantial proportion of Chinese nationals seem to accept evolution, and the country is sometimes held up to show that the sorry state of evolution, Professor Eric A. Havelock in his book The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics approaches classical political, When experimental philosophers carry out studies on thought experiments, some participants are excluded based on certain exclusion criteria, mirroring standard social science vignette methodology. You can check journal acceptance rates on their websites and a number of academic site run comparisons. Good point, it is linked to the other discussion. Still, the ESF values do seem to be largely accurate for many prominent journals Ive checked. In both cases I conclude that, given the long time horizons, distinctive uncertainties, and particular costs and benefits at stake in the, The argument from inductive risk attempts to show that practical and ethical costs of errors should influence standards of evidence for accepting scientific claims. 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 . The percentage of all articles submitted to this journal in a calendar year that was accepted for publication in the same year. But unless the review process is completely broken, one would expect accepted articles to generally be of better quality than rejected articles. Search. Im not saying that publication is a good measure of quality (though the published articles I read are, on the whole, much better than the ones I have seen submitted to journals, for some anecdata). Unlike the sciences we lack standards for what constitutes good work that are clear, meaningful, and more or less universally accepted. This lets referees focus on issues like over-selling, competing hypotheses, etc., not judgements of prestige and certainly not judgements about whether or not the experiment really worked (the equivalent of whether the argument is really sound?). Likewise, it isnt wrong in principle to found a new philosophical journal for professionals. PhilPapers PhilPeople PhilArchive PhilEvents PhilJobs. With academic employment of a desirable sort such a radically scarce good, and with so many qualified people out there chasing those few positions, there *is* going to be a race to separate oneself from the pack.Report. (Publishing rejected work on the internet just for the sake of publishing isnt likely to do yourself or your readers much good).Report. Bias towards what? If the goal is the dissemination of new knowledge, and its clear the paper has valuable information or perspectives, or arguments, in spite of its being unworthy of journal publication, why not just put it out there? Blogging platforms have made it dirt-simple to get set up, and publishing in a matter of moments. Thats how it should be. Both provider and patient characteristics contributed to the providers decisions. Philosophy Low Acceptance rate and High Rejection rate mean a prestigious journal such as Comparative Philosophy whereas high acceptance rate and low rejection rate means the journal doesn't go through rigorous checks such as Comparative Philosophy. In other words, the proposal would *only* help philosophers competing with other academics if other academics did not know about it. Acceptance Rate. If we look at the number of survey responses for these journals over the years 20112013, we can get a sense of how large each journal looms in the Journal Survey vs. the APA/BPA report: Theres a pretty a strong correlation evident here. SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field. It sounds like, It's also worth noting that US departments are legally required to preferentially treat Americans in the exact same way, although they needn't advertise the fact []. And we can use those figures to infer that 17.6% of submissions to these journals were from women, which matches the 16.4% in the Journal Surveys fairly well. Theres far more stuff out there than I have time to read, and Im not experienced enough to easily be able to tell which articles are worth that limited time, and which arent. These rates are an internal quality control benchmark, whereas the impact factor is an external . Sophia is an academic journal devoted to professional pursuits in philosophy, metaphysics, religion and moral thinking, founded in 1962 by Max Charlesworth and Graeme de Graaf. But thats not my worry. As Ive said before, I think a lot of this would be improved by a move away from the top journals in the field nearly all being generalist journals. But I think itd be unrealistic to think about the two roles independently. csv . I noticed the discussions in the links do in some places conflate Canadian citizens who hold PhDs and people who, These are fair points, though I'd want to disentangle hiring Canadians vs. hiring people with Canadian PhDs. I cant comment on the discrepancies for Erkenntnis and Synthese, though, since I know much less about their reputations for turnaround. The more substantial costs are (in ascending order), 1. Another reason not to increase the number of professional journals to accomodate all that we write is that our work is in demand by non-professionals and yet we write so little for them. It's not as current as I'd like (2011), nor as complete ( Phil Imprint isn't included, perhaps too new at the time). I guess I agree that if you want people well outside your area to read your paper, you need to publish it in a generalist journal. So, at best, most of these numbers are rounded estimates. Nietzsche therein will too, and so then Id just have more PPR journals to scour through *in addition* to keeping up with everything JNS puts out.Report, I think there are a lot of good suggestions here, and I really like the pairing of Justins suggestion about higher acceptance rates paired with Sauls rules about tenure files. Oof do I feel stupid. I consider two lines of justification for discounting: (i) ethical arguments for a "pure rate of time preference" and (ii) economic arguments that take time as a proxy for economic growth and the diminishing marginal utility of consumption. This is already the case in philosophy of science, where you can have a very strong CV just through publishing in BJPS and Phil Sci (I have only one joint-authored paper in a generalist journal), and anecdotally I think the refereeing process works rather better in philosophy of science than in other fields. Surely, if the number of philosophy journals considered were broadened to an equally broad scope, then the average acceptance rate would also increase significantly? This will just cause article inflation, thus causing early career PhDs to just need to publish even more articles. but 3-5 seems very low to me.Report. Perhaps if people had a greater idea of how the process works plus the fundraising process to start a new journal we could go about setting up some more as has been suggested in other subthreads, including one you participated in. Acceptance rate: 25%. This in turn will help students to learn about codes of ethics which will govern their future conduct as professionals. Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement of philosophy. Some clever person could figure out how build something like that for online oa journals (if they havent already.) ), and my own. The AJP is owned and sponsored by the Association and published by Taylor & Francis under their Routledge imprint. The survey has accrued 7,425 responses as of this writing. This is helpful. Why Does the Chinese Public Accept Evolution? As you may recall, Hannon suggested we consider the proposal, ifsomeone fails to fulfill their duties as referee, the journal will not accept submissions from that referee, for some period of time to be determined. Schliesser thinks we should direct more of our attention to features of the system in which authors, referees, and editors are operating. The poll results identified 20 journals ranked best by respondents. Seems to have worked, in large part because prominent Nietzsche scholars backed it early on in various concrete ways. Ellis, Moral Philosophy Department, The University, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, Scotland. There is no single list or database of acceptance rates. Journals seem to serve two purposes right now: getting your own idea out there (and a line on your CV), and having a place that promises to only publish quality philosophy papers (whatever that means). That incentive will only vanish if most philosophers can be convinced that acceptance rates can be tripled without a significant loss in the general quality of published material. That an article has been published in a top journal is a very useful proxy for its being more likely to be worth the time to read it, at least for an inexperienced person like me. While this may possibly indicate that A/F faculty are slightly more ethical, more likely it reflects different ways of perceiving the world among quantitatively vs. qualitatively-oriented faculty. (Draw your own conclusions about human nature.). This has been discussed elsewhere on DN (Justin: perhaps you could link that if you recall it?) That means that, even on this proposal, some specialist journals will remain more prestigious than others, just in virtue of their subarea of coverage. There are at least three important contrasts. So maybe the records for this period were lost in translation. We also compare the results to a prior similar survey conducted by Siegel and Jackson. Routledge. Therefore, it is advised to submit manuscripts to journals with low impact factors. On the one hand, as someone at an [], Thanks for clarifying, David. A common objection charges that this argument presupposes a behavioral theory of, It has long been known that the practice of testing all hypotheses at the same level , regardless of the distribution of the data, is not consistent with Bayesian expected utility maximization. But they would know about it. The average wait time for the final decision is under 4 weeks. ISSN of this journal is/are 0022362X, 19398549 . States should, as a matter of justice, accept global minimum tax, This study aims at measuring the level of unacceptability of certain unethical behaviours for educators in accounting/finance as well as marketing/management in their various roles. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. may strike, Why did the Democrats do relatively well: the Michigan experience, The threat to academic freedom in teaching and research from the "woke" thought police, an ongoing saga, How Birkbeck senior management wrecked the finances of the university. Increasing article acceptance rates will do nothing. Journals in other fields are often reporting the findings of expensive trails that are expected to be competent but nothing more. So lets compare with an outside source again. And please direct others to do the same if you share any of this on social media. Publishing more means that engaging with the literature gets increasingly difficult. This means that here and now the liberals will take American democracy as given and will then "concentrate empirically and descriptively on this kind of political mechanism." Or a rigorous business journal? Its not as current as Id like (2011), nor as complete (Phil Imprint isnt included, perhaps too new at the time). Acceptance rates estimated from the survey will pretty consistently overestimate the true ratein many cases by a lot. A paper in philosophy of physics is going to be more widely read by its intended audience if it is published in BJPS or SHPMP than if it is published in Mind (although it doesnt make much difference, because most people will read the article via online archives anyway). In that process the data were moved to a different hosting service, apparently with some changes to the survey format. Im not exactly sure. Two-thirds accepted brain death as an ethical standard to determine human death. Id bet that the silly things said about physics are much more likely to come from higher prestige subareas (e.g. Philosopherswell, Ive seen people try to shop a paper around after about a month. In this paper, we use a method to measure the rate at which incoherent procedures are sure, Metrics, Flawed Indicators, and the Case of, question addressed by the authors is very important, yet their proposed solutions are problematic. Keeping that in mind, lets visualize expected wait times at these journals with a ridgeplot. Even if reviewers dont change their standards, it would leave editors with more freedom to accept papers. As a result it is harder to judge journals (and articles) on the basis of impact. Since the readership of these letters includes deans and others whom I cannot assume are familiar with academic journals in philosophy, I like to say something about the selectivity of venues in which the applicants for tenure have published. Those are the words of Eric Schliesser(Amsterdam), writing atDigressions & Impressions in response totheguest post here the other day on bad referee behaviorbyElizabeth Hannon(LSE). 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