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BSPC 15 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm
Last week I was very lucky to be at the 14th (by my count) Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference. The organisers, especially Ned Markosian, do such a fantastic job of running a conference. It really...
Update on Journal-to-Journal Citation 12 Jul 2013 | 08:37 pm
In the previous post, I mentioned some problems with Web of Knowledge. It might be best to say what these are more explicitly. (I’m grateful here to work Neil Levy did.) Web of Knowledge doesn’t incl...
How often do journals cite other journals? 11 Jul 2013 | 08:35 pm
I’ve been playing around with the data about citation patterns in top journals of recent articles, and I started to think that a lot of it was very noisy. So I was looking for ways to aggregate the da...
Three Links 11 Jul 2013 | 01:09 am
Ergo, a new open-access philosophy journal, is now accepting submissions. I’m really happy that so many people have put so much work into getting this started, and that University of Michigan is hosti...
Self-Citation within Journals 3 Jul 2013 | 08:35 pm
One of the things to look for when doing citation searches is self-citations. If Joe Bloggs’s 1999 masterpiece has lots of citations, but it turns out that’s only because Bloggs has been citing Bloggs...
How Journal of Philosophy is Different 2 Jul 2013 | 08:07 am
Three of the most important papers in the philosophy of language/semantics overlap in recent years are: Dorothy Edgington, On Conditionals, Mind 1995 Jason Stanley and Zoltan Szabo, On Quantifier Do...
How the Top 4 journals are different 2 Jul 2013 | 12:45 am
If you look at which philosophers have made the most impact by publishing in refereed philosophy journals over the last 10 years, it is easy to conclude that the one with the most impact, across acade...
h-scores of Philosophy Journals 27 Jun 2013 | 12:42 am
A quick and dirty (and probably inaccurate) count of the h-scores of various philosophy journals over the last 10 years (i.e., for papers published 2004 and later). This is the largest n such that the...
Most Cited Articles from Philosophy Journals 26 Jun 2013 | 09:59 pm
In my last post, I expressed some surprise at which articles were turning up a lot in the citations. So I got to wondering what other surprises would be in store if I looked at the data some more. It ...
Thoughts on Citation Data 25 Jun 2013 | 12:27 am
As you probably have seen, Kieran Healy has done some amazing work extracting and presenting data about the citation patterns in Philosophical Review, Mind, Nous and Journal of Philosophy over the pas...
