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Philosophical Psychology
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Philosophical Psychology

0951-5089

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cphp20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 803 32 30 8
Social Sciences and Humanities 841 13 21 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 58
Documents by Best Scientists*: 61
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 58
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.809
Impact Factor: 2.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Philosophical Psychology?

The journal mostly deals with topics like Epistemology, Cognitive science, Cognition, Cognitive psychology and Social psychology. Epistemology, which encompasses Consciousness, Argument, Experimental philosophy, Metaphysics and Moral psychology, is the main subject of Philosophical Psychology. The journal investigates Moral psychology research which frequently intersects with Moral disengagement.

The research on Cognitive science tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Mental representation, Perception, Embodied cognition, Connectionism and Philosophy of psychology.

  • Epistemology (53.54%)
  • Cognitive science (35.86%)
  • Cognition (15.69%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Five kinds of self‐knowledge (767 citations)
  • Intentional Action in Folk Psychology: An Experimental Investigation (285 citations)
  • Surveying Freedom: Folk Intuitions about free will and moral responsibility (247 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Philosophical Psychology:

Epistemology, Cognitive science, Cognition, Social psychology and Cognitive psychology are the main subjects of interest in the most cited articles. The most cited articles help close the divide between two different fields of study: Epistemology and Intuition. The most cited publications focus on Cognitive science but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Mental representation, Perception, Consciousness, Argument and Cognitive model.

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

  • Epistemology
  • Law
  • Cognition

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Epistemology, Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Cognitive science and Moral psychology. Philosophical Psychology tackles research works in Epistemology as well as Intuition. The research on Cognitive psychology featured in Philosophical Psychology combines topics in other fields like Feeling, Affect (psychology), Episodic memory and Action (philosophy).

The journal focused on Cognition research but expanded to cover Control (linguistics). It explores issues in Cognitive science which can be linked to other research areas like Representation (systemics) and Perception. Moral psychology research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Moral cognition and Framing effect.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The psychology of philosophy: Associating philosophical views with psychological traits in professional philosophers (3 citations)
  • Tactful animals: How the study of touch can inform the animal morality debate (2 citations)
  • Strong representationalism and bodily sensations: Reliable causal covariance and biological function (2 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 Philosophical Psychology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Alfred R. Mele (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Adam Feltz (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Grant Gillett (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Fred Keijzer (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • James W. Garson (6 papers) absent 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 Philosophical Psychology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Edinburgh (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Oxford (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Ruhr University Bochum (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Toronto (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Washington University in St. Louis (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last 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, 7.69% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 13.89% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 1.39% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.00% of all publications and 59.72% 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.

Career Opportunities in Philosophical Psychology

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Top Publications

  • Adopting the intentional stance toward natural and artificial agents

    Jairo Perez-Osorio;Agnieszka Wykowska

    (2020)
    92 Citations
  • Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests

    (2022)
    45 Citations
  • Ideological diversity, hostility, and discrimination in philosophy

    Uwe Peters;Nathan Honeycutt;Andreas De Block;Lee Jussim

    (2020)
    40 Citations
  • Echoes of covid misinformation

    Neil Levy;Neil Levy

    (2021)
    40 Citations
  • Trust as the glue of cognitive institutions

    (2022)
    30 Citations
  • The psychologically rich life

    Lorraine L. Besser;Shigehiro Oishi

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Phronesis as moral decathlon: contesting the redundancy thesis about phronesis

    (2022)
    20 Citations
  • The unity and plurality of sharing

    (2023)
    19 Citations
  • Moral conformity and its philosophical lessons

    Vladimir Chituc;Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • The person’s position-taking in the shaping of schizophrenic phenomena

    (2022)
    14 Citations

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