Journal of the history of philosophy
Johns Hopkins University Press · US · ISSN 00225053
SJR Q1
What the numbers say
Publication count fell while average citedness rose.
Output shrank while citation impact rose. If you prioritise average citedness per article, this trend may be favourable for submission decisions. The share of top-10% cited papers moved from 18.9% to 11.3%. Expect fewer articles from this journal to sit among the most‑cited in the field. Philosophical Ethics and Theory rose from 9.3% to 15.0% of what the journal runs. Consider submitting work in philosophical ethics and theory while that area is more represented. Recent titles increasingly carry kant · spinoza · aquinas · plato · hume. If your paper focuses on those classical thinkers, the journal appears to be publishing more such titles.
Citation metrics
SJR quartile
Q1
SJR score
0.61
Citations / doc (2y)
0.65
h-index
77
Based on the Scopus and OpenAlex citation graphs. We do not provide Clarivate’s JCR Impact Factor.
Output and citation impact
Whether citation performance keeps up as output grows.
PapersField-weighted impact
2018
94
2.37
2019
94
2.50
2020
95
2.98
2021
86
0.85
2022
72
4.93
2023
70
1.62
2024
69
2.49
2025
71
3.77
Topic shift
Share in the last 24 months (2024-09 – 2026-08) versus the previous 24 (2022-09 – 2024-08).
Rising
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory9.3%→15.0%+5.8%pPrevNow
- Classical Philosophy and Thought16.7%→21.5%+4.8%pPrevNow
- Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations0.0%→3.2%+3.2%pPrevNow
- Medieval and Classical Philosophy5.6%→8.6%+3.0%pPrevNow
- Philosophy and Theoretical Science1.8%→4.3%+2.4%pPrevNow
Falling
- History of Science and Medicine9.3%→2.1%−7.1%pPrevNow
- Philosophy, Science, and History5.6%→0.0%−5.6%pPrevNow
- Political Economy and Marxism4.6%→0.0%−4.6%pPrevNow
- Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought11.1%→7.5%−3.6%pPrevNow
- Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment2.8%→0.0%−2.8%pPrevNow
Terms appearing more often
Wording in recent paper titles that stands out against the journal's own baseline.
kantspinozaaquinasplatohumearistotletranscendentalmetaphysicsheideggerdescartes
Author countries
Last 24 months (2024-09 – 2026-08) against the previous 24 (2022-09 – 2024-08).
- US0.0%→54.5%+54.5%pPrevNow
- NL0.0%→18.2%+18.2%pPrevNow
- GB60.0%→9.1%−50.9%pPrevNow
- DK0.0%→9.1%+9.1%pPrevNow
- IL0.0%→9.1%+9.1%pPrevNow
- CH20.0%→0.0%−20.0%pPrevNow
Top 5 institutions
Top 5 institutions publishing in this journal, 2018 – 2026.
Recently published
20The 20 most recent papers — not the full list.
1
Article2026
The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century by Christopher Yeomans (review)Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
2
Article2026
Berkeley's Theory of Vision: A New LookEvan Sommers*
History and Philosophy of ScienceArts and Humanities
3
Article2026
The "Critique of Judgment" and the Unity of Kant's Critical System by Lara Ostaric (review)PhilosophyArts and Humanities
4
Article2026
Rousseau's God: Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man by John T. Scott (review)PhilosophyArts and Humanities
5
Article2026
Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā's "Pointers and Reminders": A Philological Study by Michael A. Rapoport (review)PhilosophyArts and Humanities
6
Article2026
On the Divine Things and Their Revelation by Friedrich Henrich Jacobi (review)HistoryArts and Humanities
7
Article2026
La notion de volonté dans les écrits de saint Augustin entre 388 et 404 by Evgenia Moiseeva (review)PhilosophyArts and Humanities
8
Article2026
Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I: Crafting the Contemplative by James M. Ambury (review)PhilosophyArts and Humanities
9
Article2026
Soul and Body in Aristotle's Theory of PerceptionJoshua Trubowitz*
PhilosophyArts and Humanities
10
11
Article2026
Fractured Goodness: Aristotle's Response to Plato's Form of the Good by Christopher Shields (review)PhilosophyArts and Humanities
12
Article2026
Maimonides's Skeptical Critique of a Divine Intellect, or the Curious Case of Guide I.68Josef Stern*
PhilosophyArts and Humanities
13
14
Article2026
The Unity of Reason, Reconsidered: On the "Autonomy of Ideas" in the Later KantSabina Vaccarino Bremner*
PhilosophyArts and Humanities
15
Article2026
Transcendental Idealism and Metaphysics: Husserl's Critique of Heidegger. Vol I by Daniele De Santis; and: Transcendental Idealism and Metaphysics: Husserl's Critique of Heidegger. Vol 2 by Daniele De Santis (review)Experimental and Cognitive PsychologyPsychology
16
Article2026
Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume's Thought by Lorne Falkenstein (review)General Social SciencesSocial Sciences
17
Article2026
Determinism and Enlightenment: The Collaboration of Diderot and d'Holbach by Ruggero Sciuto (review)AnthropologySocial Sciences
18
19
Article2026
Causality and Causal Explanation in Aristotle by Nathanael Stein (review)Bryan C. Reece*
PhilosophyArts and Humanities
20
Article2026
Kant’s Conclusions in the Transcendental AestheticW. Clark Wolf*
PhilosophyArts and Humanities
Most cited
20Top 20 most cited, 2018 – 2026.
1
ArticleCitations 932019
The Contextualist Revolution in Early Modern PhilosophyChristia Mercer*
History and Philosophy of ScienceArts and Humanities
2
ArticleCitations 812022
Kant on Lazy Savagery, RacializedHuaping Lu‐Adler*
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
3
ArticleCitations 532018
Grotius on Property and the Right of NecessityDennis Klimchuk*
PhilosophyArts and Humanities
4
ArticleCitations 422020
The Death of Consciousness? James's Case against Psychological UnobservablesAlexander Klein*
General PsychologyPsychology
5
ArticleCitations 402018
Emilie du Châtelet's Metaphysics of SubstanceMarius Stan*
OAAnthropologySocial Sciences
6
7
ArticleCitations 402018
The Beauty of Science without the Science of Beauty: Kant and the Rationalists on the Aesthetics of CognitionAngela Breitenbach*
OAHistory and Philosophy of ScienceArts and Humanities
8
ArticleCitations 362022
Representation and Mind-Body Identity in Spinoza’s PhilosophyKarolina Hübner*
PhilosophyArts and Humanities
9
ArticleCitations 362019
Reason in Action in Aristotle: A Reading of EE V.12/EN VI.12Juan S. Piñeros Glasscock*
PhilosophyArts and Humanities
10
ArticleCitations 362019
The Birth of BeliefJessica Moss*, Whitney Schwab
PhilosophyArts and Humanities
11
ArticleCitations 352019
Margaret Cavendish on Motion and MereologyAlison Peterman*
History and Philosophy of ScienceArts and Humanities
12
ArticleCitations 292019
Empeiria and Good Habits in Aristotle’s EthicsMarta Jiménez*
OAPhilosophyArts and Humanities
13
ArticleCitations 282020
Mary Shepherd on Mind, Soul, and SelfDeborah Boyle*
OAHistory and Philosophy of ScienceArts and Humanities
14
ArticleCitations 262024
Ryle’s Debt to Pragmatism and Margaret MacdonaldCheryl Misak*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
15
ArticleCitations 252020
The Heart of Flesh: Nietzsche on Affects and the Interpretation of the BodyChristopher Fowles*
OAPhilosophyArts and Humanities
16
ArticleCitations 252019
Du Châtelet on Freedom, Self-Motion, and Moral NecessityJulia Joráti*
Cognitive NeuroscienceNeuroscience
17
ArticleCitations 232018
Hume at La Flèche: Skepticism and the French ConnectionDarío Perinetti*
AnthropologySocial Sciences
18
ArticleCitations 232022
Kant's Three Conceptions of Infinite SpaceReed Winegar*
History and Philosophy of ScienceArts and Humanities
19
ArticleCitations 222019
Shattering Presence: Being as Change, Time as the Sudden Instant in Heidegger's 1930–31 Seminar on Plato's ParmenidesFrancisco J. González*
Experimental and Cognitive PsychologyPsychology
20
ArticleCitations 212025
C. D. Broad on Precognitions and John William DunneMatyáš Moravec*
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
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