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Comparing Three (No, Four) Top 20 Lists in Philosophy (guest post)

What, if anything, can be learned by comparing several different accounts of philosophers’ citation rankings and other indicators of disciplinary impact? (more…)

Top 30 Philosophy PhD Programs According to APDA

Academic Placement Data and Analysis (APDA), which collects data about and produces a ranking of PhD programs in philosophy, has recently posted details about the top 30 programs on its ranking, including comments about the programs from the students. (more…)

Best PhD Programs in Philosophy (guest post by Carolyn Dicey Jennings)

The following is a guest post * by Carolyn Dicey Jennings, associate professor of philosophy and cognitive science at University of California, Merced, and the principal investigator for the project, Academic Placement Data and Analysis (APDA) (more…)

2020 QS Philosophy Rankings

The 2020 “QS World University Rankings” have been published, including rankings of philosophy programs. (more…)

Australia’s Research Assessment Exercise: Results in Philosophy

The 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) report, a national assessment exercise that attempts to measure research quality at institutions of higher education in the country, has just been released. (more…)

A Reputational Survey of Philosophy Programs Plotted Against Program Placement Data

To what extent does getting one’s PhD in philosophy from a program that does well in a reputational survey increase one’s chances of finding a permanent academic position? (more…)

PhilPeople: from Philosophy to Philo-Me (guest post by Mitchell Aboulafia)

“The ‘me’ culture has colonized philosophy.”

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The Guardian’s Undergraduate Philosophy Rankings

The Guardian has published its 2019 “University Guide,” a set of rankings of schools aimed primarily at undergraduate students. The guide includes discipline-specific rankings, including for philosophy. (more…)

2018 QS Philosophy Rankings

The 2018 “QS World University Rankings” have been published, including rankings of philosophy programs.

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Philosophy PhD Program Rankings: APDA’s 2017 Final Report

Academic Placement Data and Analysis (APDA) has released its complete 2017 Final Report, an 81-page document that collects data on PhD-granting philosophy programs (including ratings by former students, placement rates, and diversity) and the discipline as a whole (including hiring networks, placement maps, cluster analyses of programs, job descriptions, non-academi..

2017 QS Philosophy Rankings Released

London-based education firm Quacquarelli Symonds has published its annual “QS World University Rankings,” The Guardian reports, including a ranking of universities at which to study philosophy. (more…)

Appearance and Reality, Take 2 (guest post by Brian Bruya)

Yesterday’s post, “A Detailed Critique of the Philosophical Gourmet Report,” contained excerpts from “Appearance and Reality in The Philosophical Gourmet Report: Why the Discrepancy Matters to the Profession of Philosophy,” an article in Metaphilosophy by Brian Bruya (Eastern Michigan) in which various criticism of the PGR were summarized. As noted in an update to t..

A Detailed Critique of the Philosophical Gourmet Report (updated)

The latest issue of Metaphilosophy (October 2015) contains “Appearance and Reality in The Philosophical Gourmet Report: Why the Discrepancy Matters to the Profession of Philosophy” by Brian Bruya (Eastern Michigan). It is a “data-driven critique” of the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR) that argues that “the actual value of the PGR, in its current form, is not near..

Journal Rankings — Useful? (guest post by Thom Brooks)

The following is a guest post * by Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government at Durham University’s Law School, founding editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy and blogger at The Brooks Blog.

Journal Rankings — Useful?
by Thom Brooks

I’ve benefited enormously from much invaluable advice over the years that has fed directly into my Publishing Advice for..

Times Higher Ed University Rankings

Times Higher Education has released its 2015 “World Reputation Rankings” of universities. As its title suggests, this a reputational survey, so, subject to many of the same concerns and cautions that all such surveys raise. THE site says:

Some 10,507 senior scholars took part in this year’s invitation-only Academic Reputation Survey. They provided their time and ..

User’s Guide to Philosophy Without Rankings

A User’s Guide to Philosophy Without Rankings is a new site “intended for the use of prospective graduate students in philosophy, faculty (including chairs or heads) in philosophy, and deans, provosts, and other administrators, all of whom need resources for the decisions they make about philosophy programs.” It is based on the idea that “currently, there are no ran..

UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) & Philosophy

A few days ago, the results from the UK government’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise were released. I suspect that a lot of non-UK readers are largely unfamiliar with the REF, so first some basics:

The REF is used by the government to assess the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. It replaced the earlier Research Assesment E..

2014 Philosophical Gourmet Report Released

The 2014 edition of the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR) has been released. The PGR is a reputational survey of a selection of PhD-granting philosophy departments based on questionnaires completed by around 230 philosophers. The release of the PGR was slightly delayed this time around, owing to considerable controversy about its editor-in-chief, Brian Leiter, its ..

What Do PGR Evaluators Need to Know?

I very much doubt that I would be able to provide anything like reliable judgments of philosophical quality based on the names of individuals in faculties, without spending an enormous amount of time reading people’s work. Although I’ve been in professional philosophy for nearly ten years, and have gained at least some familiarity with a large number of philosopher..

Leiter to Step Down from PGR / The New Consensus

Brian Leiter (Chicago) announced that he will be stepping down as editor of the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR), a highly influential reputational ranking of philosophy Ph.D. programs he created in 1989 while he was a graduate student, and which has been published on the Internet since 1996. The 2014-15 edition of the PGR will be officially co-edited by Leiter an..

How Much Weight Should a Candidate’s School Have?

“The next time you do a job search break your committee into two groups. Have one group evaluate the candidates without reference to the institution from which they graduated and have the other evaluate the candidates with all of the institutional information included. I can almost guarantee that the short lists will not be the same. And I believe that anyone who is..

Broader Effects of the PGR

The following is an excerpt from an email a well-known senior philosopher sent to his/her colleagues regarding visiting speakers:

“The events are being organized so as to maximally benefit the department. This includes promoting the reputation of the department, providing intellectual stimulation, and just having plain fun. Normally, conferences and workshops sho..

Sheffield Will Not Cooperate with PGR

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield has made the following announcement: “Prospective postgraduates should note that the Department is not supplying updates and corrections to the 2014 Philosophy Gourmet Report, and should not assume that this report is based on accurate information.”

$The PGR’s Technical Problems (updated)$

The PGR’s Technical Problems (updated)

Several recent posts here have discussed questions regarding the leadership of the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR), the best known ranking of philosophy graduate programs, with some discussion of what an alternative to the PGR might look like. In the meanwhile, discussions continue between the creator and current editor of the PGR, Brian Leiter (Chicago), and rep..