Scopus subject area
Best Philosophy journals
890 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Philosophy. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.
| # | Journal | CiteScore | Percentile | Quartile | WoS | ABDC | OA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AJOB Neuroscience | 12.3 | 99th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 2 | AI and Society | 10.9 | 99th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 3 | Journal of Political Philosophy | 10.5 | 99th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 4 | International Journal of Social Robotics | 9.8 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 5 | International Journal of Ethics and Systems | 9.7 | 99th | Q1 | ESCI | C | No |
| 6 | Philosophy and Technology | 9.6 | 99th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 7 | Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility | 9.1 | 99th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 8 | Minds and Machines | 8.9 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 9 | Cognition, Technology and Work | 8.2 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 10 | Science Technology and Human Values | 8.1 | 98th | Q1 | SSCI | A | No |
| 11 | Al-Ihkam: Jurnal Hukum dan Pranata Sosial | 7.8 | 98th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 12 | Political Psychology | 7.6 | 98th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 13 | Business Ethics Quarterly | 7.5 | 98th | Q1 | SSCI | A | No |
| 14 | Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society | 6.9 | 98th | Q1 | ESCI | B | No |
| 15 | Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | 6.3 | 98th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 16 | Neuroethics | 6.2 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 17 | Journal of Academic Ethics | 6 | 98th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 18 | Mind and Language | 6 | 98th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 19 | Asian Journal of Business Ethics | 5.9 | 97th | Q1 | ESCI | C | No |
| 20 | Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis | 5.9 | 97th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 21 | Thinking and Reasoning | 5.7 | 97th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 22 | Philosophical Review | 5.6 | 97th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 23 | Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences | 5.5 | 97th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 24 | Research Ethics | 5.5 | 97th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 25 | International Theory | 5.4 | 97th | Q1 | SSCI | – | Yes |
| 26 | Journal of Critical Realism | 5.4 | 97th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 27 | Nous | 5.4 | 97th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 28 | Bioethics | 5.1 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 29 | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | 5.1 | 96th | Q1 | AHCI, SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 30 | Journal of Humanistic Psychology | 5.1 | 96th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 31 | Philosophy Compass | 5 | 96th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 32 | Review of Philosophy and Psychology | 5 | 96th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 33 | Environmental Values | 4.8 | 96th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 34 | Teoria de la Educacion | 4.6 | 96th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 35 | Memory, Mind and Media | 4.5 | 96th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 36 | Social Epistemology | 4.5 | 96th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 37 | Nazhruna: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam | 4.5 | 95th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 38 | Journal of Sociolinguistics | 4.3 | 95th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 39 | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour | 4.2 | 95th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 40 | Global Constitutionalism | 4.1 | 95th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 41 | Public Health Ethics | 4.1 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 42 | Sport, Ethics and Philosophy | 4 | 95th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 43 | Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics | 3.9 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 44 | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | 3.9 | 95th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 45 | Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom) | 3.8 | 95th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 46 | Ethics | 3.8 | 94th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | A | No |
| 47 | AJOB Empirical Bioethics | 3.7 | 94th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 48 | Ethics, Policy and Environment | 3.7 | 94th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 49 | Ethics and Society | 3.6 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | Yes |
| 50 | Food Ethics | 3.6 | 94th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 51 | Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | 3.6 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 52 | Journal of School Health | 3.6 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 53 | Philosophical Psychology | 3.6 | 94th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 54 | Ethical Theory and Moral Practice | 3.6 | 93th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 55 | Journal of Social Philosophy | 3.6 | 93th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 56 | Mind | 3.6 | 93th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 57 | Public Integrity | 3.6 | 93th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 58 | Politics, Philosophy and Economics | 3.5 | 93th | Q1 | SSCI | B | No |
| 59 | Biology and Philosophy | 3.5 | 93th | Q1 | AHCI, SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 60 | Reflective Practice | 3.5 | 93th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 61 | Acta Biotheoretica | 3.4 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 62 | Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura | 3.4 | 93th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 63 | Postdigital Science and Education (Switzerland) | 3.4 | 92th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 64 | Ulumuna | 3.4 | 92th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 65 | Episteme | 3.3 | 92th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 66 | Hastings Center Report | 3.3 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 67 | Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science | 3.3 | 92th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 68 | Intellectual Economics | 3.3 | 92th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 69 | Argumentation | 3.2 | 92th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 70 | European Journal for Philosophy of Science | 3.2 | 92th | Q1 | AHCI, SCIE | – | No |
| 71 | Human Geography (United Kingdom) | 3.2 | 92th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 72 | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy | 3.1 | 91th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 73 | Monash Bioethics Review | 3.1 | 91th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 74 | Topoi | 3.1 | 91th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 75 | Asian Bioethics Review | 3 | 91th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 76 | Australasian Journal of Philosophy | 3 | 91th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 77 | Inquiry (United Kingdom) | 3 | 91th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 78 | Linguistics and Philosophy | 3 | 91th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 79 | Philosophical Papers | 3 | 91th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 80 | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research | 3 | 91th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 81 | Erkenntnis | 2.9 | 90th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 82 | Global Bioethics | 2.9 | 90th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 83 | Hypatia | 2.9 | 90th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 84 | Journal of Philosophy | 2.9 | 90th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 85 | Medical Humanities | 2.9 | 90th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 86 | Philosophers Imprint | 2.9 | 90th | Q1 | AHCI | – | Yes |
| 87 | Review of Religious Research | 2.9 | 90th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 88 | Canadian Slavonic Papers | 2.8 | 90th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 89 | Philosophical Quarterly | 2.8 | 90th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 90 | Journal of Applied Philosophy | 2.7 | 89th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 91 | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | 2.7 | 89th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 92 | Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur'an dan Hadis | 2.7 | 89th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 93 | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly | 2.7 | 89th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 94 | Journal for General Philosophy of Science | 2.6 | 89th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 95 | Knowledge Cultures | 2.6 | 89th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 96 | Nous-Supplement: Philosophical Perspectives | 2.6 | 89th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 97 | Philosophical Explorations | 2.6 | 89th | Q1 | AHCI | – | No |
| 98 | Pragmatics | 2.6 | 89th | Q1 | AHCI, SSCI | – | No |
| 99 | Economics and Philosophy | 2.6 | 88th | Q1 | SSCI | A | No |
| 100 | Critical Philosophy of Race | 2.6 | 88th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
Rank and percentile are within the Philosophy Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.