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European Journal for Philosophy of Science
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European Journal for Philosophy of Science

1879-4912

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/13194

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 733 12 13 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 29
Documents by Best Scientists*: 23
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 32
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.971
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at European journal for philosophy of science?

European journal for philosophy of science facilitates discussions on Philosophy of science, Epistemology, Argument, Theoretical physics and Context (language use). In it, Mathematical economics, Metaphysics, Value (ethics), Causation and Natural law are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Philosophy of science research. Among the topics covered in European journal for philosophy of science are Epistemology and Function (engineering).

  • Philosophy of science (88.68%)
  • Epistemology (60.79%)
  • Argument (12.63%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • What is a complex system (334 citations)
  • What is a mechanism? Thinking about mechanisms across the sciences (218 citations)
  • In defence of the value free ideal (97 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at European journal for philosophy of science:

The most cited papers facilitate discussions on Philosophy of science, Epistemology, Theoretical physics, Argument and Causation. The published articles focus on Philosophy of science but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Metaphysics, Power (social and political), Criticism, Field (geography) and Skepticism. The published articles facilitate discussions on Epistemology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Climate science and Value (ethics).

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Epistemology
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

European journal for philosophy of science investigates areas of study like Philosophy of science, Epistemology, Argument, Context (language use) and Metaphysics. Topics in Philosophy of science were tackled in line with various other fields like History and philosophy of science, Creativity, Engineering ethics, Structure (mathematical logic) and Perspectivism. European journal for philosophy of science links adjacent topics like Epistemology with Value (ethics).

In addition to Argument research, the journal aims to explore topics under Probability and statistics, Mathematical economics, Principle of indifference and Event (probability theory). The research on Metaphysics featured in European journal for philosophy of science combines topics in other fields like Ontology (information science) and Natural law. The journal holds forums on Realism that merges themes from other disciplines such as Idealization and Interpretation (philosophy).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The dissipative approach to quantum field theory: conceptual foundations and ontological implications. (5 citations)
  • Perspectival pluralism for animal welfare (5 citations)
  • Holism as the empirical significance of symmetries (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in European journal for philosophy of science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jon Williamson (6 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Jan Sprenger (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John D. Norton (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Samuel C. Fletcher (4 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Miles Alexander James MacLeod (4 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in European journal for philosophy of science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Helsinki (15 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Cambridge (14 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (12 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Pittsburgh (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 6.12% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 19.57% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.87% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.48% of all publications and 51.09% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • What is a complex system

    James Ladyman;James Lambert;Karoline Wiesner

    (2020)
    895 Citations
  • Imagination in Scientific Practice

    Steven French

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Social constructionism and climate science denial

    Sven Ove Hansson

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Process epistemology in the COVID-19 era: rethinking the research process to avoid dangerous forms of reification

    (2022)
    20 Citations
  • Mechanisms, laws and explanation

    Nancy Cartwright;Nancy Cartwright;John M. Pemberton;Sarah Wieten

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • No Laws and (Thin) Powers In, No (Governing) Laws Out

    Stavros Ioannidis;Vassilis Livanios;Stathis Psillos

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • A mistaken confidence in data

    Edouard Machery

    (2021)
    13 Citations
  • Cultural Theory’s contributions to climate science: reply to Hansson

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • Modeling interventions in multi-level causal systems: supervenience, exclusion and underdetermination

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • A theory of contrastive causal explanation and its implications concerning the explanatoriness of deterministic and probabilistic hypotheses

    Elliott Sober

    (2020)
    1 Citations

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