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Journals for “Political Philosophy and Ethics”
Suggested journals
Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journal of Political Philosophy Wiley · United Kingdom | 100% | 36.2 | #32,620 | 87 | 57% | Not recorded |
| 2 | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 72% | 62.2 | #11,476 | 390 | 54% | Not recorded |
| 3 | Journal of Social Philosophy Wiley · United States | 73% | 55.7 | #15,648 | 286 | 60% | Not recorded |
| 4 | Politics Philosophy & Economics SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 65% | 64.0 | #10,380 | 110 | 67% | Not recorded |
| 5 | Res Publica Springer Science+Business Media · The Netherlands | 66% | 56.7 | #15,018 | 246 | 63% | Not recorded |
| 6 | Social Theory and Practice Florida State University · United States | 57% | 60.7 | #12,472 | 155 | 27% | Not recorded |
| 7 | Moral Philosophy and Politics De Gruyter · Germany | 60% | 44.9 | #23,548 | 109 | 63% | Not recorded |
| 8 | Ethics & Global Politics Taylor & Francis · Sweden · DOAJ | 55% | 51.5 | #18,453 | 65 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 9 | Journal of Global Ethics Routledge · United Kingdom | 50% | 58.7 | #13,727 | 151 | 45% | Not recorded |
| 10 | European Journal of Political Theory SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 49% | 57.3 | #14,623 | 185 | 68% | Not recorded |
| 11 | Public Affairs Quarterly University of Illinois Press · United States | 47% | 56.0 | #15,418 | 91 | 23% | Not recorded |
| 12 | Journal of Applied Philosophy Wiley · United Kingdom | 38% | 65.2 | #9,695 | 406 | 66% | Not recorded |
| 13 | Contemporary Political Theory Palgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 36% | 68.7 | #7,531 | 325 | 81% | Not recorded |
| 14 | Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 42% | 58.2 | #14,035 | 167 | 64% | Not recorded |
| 15 | Ethics Politics & Society University of Minho · Portugal · DOAJ | 60% | 21.9 | #50,534 | 63 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 16 | Theory and Research in Education SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 37% | 63.7 | #10,549 | 137 | 44% | Not recorded |
| 17 | Theoria Berghahn Books · South Africa · DOAJ | 44% | 51.0 | #18,829 | 118 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 18 | Philosophy & Public Affairs Wiley · United States | 38% | 61.5 | #11,927 | 135 | 62% | Not recorded |
| 19 | Analyse & Kritik De Gruyter · Germany | 39% | 56.7 | #14,994 | 117 | 52% | Not recorded |
| 20 | Journal of International Political Theory SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 35% | 55.3 | #15,908 | 125 | 70% | Not recorded |
| 21 | Democratic Theory Berghahn Books · United States · DOAJ | 38% | 47.0 | #21,829 | 81 | 100% | US$3,655 |
| 22 | Philosophy & Social Criticism SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 31% | 60.3 | #12,737 | 455 | 46% | Not recorded |
| 23 | Revista latinoamericana de filosofía política. Argentina · DOAJ | 53% | 16.9 | #55,731 | 96 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 24 | Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Science+Business Media · The Netherlands | 30% | 61.0 | #12,280 | 387 | 65% | Not recorded |
| 25 | Journal of Moral Philosophy Brill · United Kingdom | 35% | 50.9 | #18,877 | 352 | 34% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy University of Southern California · United States · DOAJ | 28% | 61.1 | #12,226 | 315 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 27 | The Journal of Ethics Springer Science+Business Media · The Netherlands | 26% | 63.7 | #10,555 | 201 | 62% | Not recorded |
| 28 | Political Theory SAGE Publishing · United States | 28% | 57.0 | #14,790 | 287 | 31% | Not recorded |
| 29 | Constellations Wiley · United Kingdom | 24% | 64.0 | #10,354 | 327 | 58% | Not recorded |
| 30 | Journal of Philosophy of Education Oxford University Press · United Kingdom | 22% | 66.8 | #8,676 | 464 | 50% | Not recorded |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
What this is not: the ITS Journal Score is not a Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore or SJR, and this site does not say whether a journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science or PubMed. Always confirm aims and scope, indexing, peer review and fees on the journal's own website before you submit.