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Philosophy and Social Criticism

0191-4537

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/psc

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 1330 7 7 2

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 17
Documents by Best Scientists*: 20
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 42
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.444
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Philosophy & Social Criticism?

The journal focuses on Epistemology, Politics, Democracy, Law and Political philosophy. Philosophy & Social Criticism focuses on Epistemology research which is adjacent to topics in Liberalism. Topics in Politics explored in Philosophy & Social Criticism were investigated in conjunction with research in Environmental ethics, State (polity) and Law and economics.

Political economy and Deliberation are some topics wherein Democracy research discussed in Philosophy & Social Criticism have an impact.

  • Epistemology (46.75%)
  • Politics (22.93%)
  • Democracy (14.09%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • the ethic of care for the self as a practice of freedom: an interview with michel foucault on January 20, 1984 (721 citations)
  • Deliberative democracy, the public sphere and the internet (210 citations)
  • Hermeneutics and social science (195 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Philosophy & Social Criticism:

The published papers are organized to address concerns in the fields of Epistemology, Politics, Law, Democracy and Political philosophy. The journal papers dive deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Epistemology and Legitimacy. The most cited papers deal with Democracy in conjunction with Deliberation and similar fields in Deliberative democracy.

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

  • Law
  • Epistemology
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Philosophy & Social Criticism was organized to reinforce research efforts on Democracy, Politics, Epistemology, Law and economics and Political economy. While Democracy is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Liberalism, Citizen journalism and Populism. The journal focuses on Politics but sometimes tackles the closely related topic of Environmental ethics which is concerned with Individualism.

The tackled Epistemology research is interrelated with Epistemic democracy which concerns subjects like Value (ethics). The subject of Economic Justice, which is connected to the field of Political philosophy, serves as the foundation of the Law and economics research featured in Philosophy & Social Criticism. The journal holds forums on Political economy that merges themes from other disciplines such as Capitalism and State (polity).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Truth, lies and tweets: a consensus theory of post-truth (10 citations)
  • Corruption as systemic political decay (5 citations)
  • Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice: (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 Philosophy & Social Criticism (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Alessandro Ferrara (35 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • David M. Rasmussen (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Maeve Cooke (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Seyla Benhabib (13 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Eduardo Mendieta (10 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 Philosophy & Social Criticism (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Goethe University Frankfurt (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Columbia University (20 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Istanbul Bilgi University (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Boston College (13 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (13 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than 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, 9.26% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.33% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.22% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.33% of all publications and 56.12% 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 Paths from Philosophy to Marriage Counseling

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Top Publications

  • Some notes on ‘Populism’:

    Jon Elster

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • Marcuse’s critique of technology today

    (2023)
    3 Citations
  • Social cohesion without electoral democracy: The case of China

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • A Game of Jacks: Review Essay of John D. Caputo's Recent Works

    Richard Kearney

    (2021)
    2 Citations
  • From formal semantics to transcendental pragmatics: Karl-Otto Apel’s original insight:

    Jürgen Habermas

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Habermas and the mutations of the public sphere

    (2024)
    0 Citations
  • “For whom the bell tolls”? A ‘vulnerability-responsibility’ model based on democratic and ‘dignified’ transactions”

    (2023)
    0 Citations

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