New Philosophy Journal Survey Project
The Blog of the APA is launching a new project to collect and share data on the experiences philosophers have had with academic journals, including information about each journal’s “average review time, time to publication, acceptance rates, comments per submission” and related qualities.
The project is an elaboration of the earlier journal survey work of Andrew Cullison (DePauw), and includes the data he collected through his site.
182 journals are listed in the survey, though there is not yet data for all of them.
You can read more about the project here, see the current data here, and enter information about your own experiences with specific journals here.
Related:
Data from journals collected by the American Philosophical Association and British Philosophical Association.
Philosophy on the SciRev Journal Reviewing Site
This is great! Those who submit their data should be careful to submit all of their negative results along with their positive results. Otherwise we’ll end up with some very skewed data, especially on acceptance rates!
Is this saliently different from the Cullison project? It’s good that it includes the CUllision data, but I’m not sure I see an obvious reason to start also collecting this data in another place as well.
Cullison isn’t able to maintain this project any longer. So he’s transferring his info to the APA blog and letting them gather new info going forward.
Something is wrong for the entry for Theoria; the average review time cannot be “20,075.82” months.
Looks like their data got swapped with that for Mind.
Maybe they could try to integrate this data: http://www.apaonline.org/?page=journalsurveys
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