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Philosophy of Science
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Philosophy of Science

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Published by: The University of Chicago Press

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/phos/jrnl_rights

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 703 14 33 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 28
Documents by Best Scientists*: 48
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 89
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.695
Impact Factor: 1.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Philosophy of Science?

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Epistemology, Philosophy of science, Theoretical physics, Argument and Cognitive science. The journal connects the study in Epistemology with the closely related area of Interpretation (philosophy).

  • Epistemology (47.98%)
  • Philosophy of science (6.63%)
  • Theoretical physics (6.48%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (3054 citations)
  • Thinking about Mechanisms (1880 citations)
  • Studies in the Logic of Explanation (1824 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Philosophy of Science:

The journal publications mainly deal with areas of study such as Epistemology, Philosophy of science, Scientific theory, Cognitive science and Artificial intelligence. While work presented in the published articles provide substantial information on Epistemology, it also covers topics in Structure (mathematical logic) and Cognition.

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

  • Epistemology
  • Law
  • Quantum mechanics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Philosophy of Science covers a variety of subjects, including Epistemology, Cognitive science, Mathematical economics, Theoretical physics and Causation. Epistemology research presented is mostly focused on the subject of Teleology. Philosophy of Science is focused mainly on Theoretical physics, particularly Theory of relativity.

The study on Causation presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Causal inference. The research on Quantum gravity tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of General relativity and Quantum field theory.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Why Simpler Computer Simulation Models Can Be Epistemically Better for Informing Decisions (6 citations)
  • Review of Nancy Cartwright’s Nature, the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better (5 citations)
  • A Framework for Analyzing Broadly Engaged Philosophy of Science (3 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 of Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Elliott Sober (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alexander Rosenberg (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • William Marias Malisoff (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wesley C. Salmon (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Adolf Grünbaum (20 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 of Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Pittsburgh (49 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Carnegie Mellon University (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Irvine (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (17 papers) absent 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, 85.58% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.33% of all publications and 86.67% 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.

Top Publications

  • What is a replication

    Edouard Machery

    (2020)
    180 Citations
  • Defending Intrinsic Biological Essentialism

    Michael Devitt

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science

    (2022)
    21 Citations
  • Causal Complexity, Conditional Independence and Downward Causation

    James Woodward

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Varieties of Subjectivity

    Peter Godfrey-Smith

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • The Dual Landscape Model of Adaptation and Niche Construction

    Mark M. Tanaka;Peter Godfrey-Smith;Benjamin Kerr

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • The Requirement of Total Evidence: A Reply to Epstein’s Critique

    Martin Barrett;Elliott Sober

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • On the Evolution of Compositional Language

    Jeffrey A. Barrett;Calvin Cochran;Brian Skyrms

    (2020)
    5 Citations
  • Social Learning in Neural Agent-Based Models

    (2024)
    3 Citations
  • Tracking Confirmation

    (2021)
    3 Citations

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