List of Journals Publishing Articles and Reviews on Kierkegaard

 Click here to access an Excel file (330kb) which provides details on journals that have published articles and reviews on Kierkegaard between 1995 and 2010. 

Purpose

This information is provided with the following goals in mind:

- to give researchers working in this field a sense of which journals have been receptive to publishing Kierkegaard-themed articles;

- to provide researchers with an easy-to-use overview of potential outlets for their work;

- to identify high-quality research outlets that, to date, have not published articles on Kierkegaard but might do so, given their editorial approaches; and

- to provide some data on where and how often Kierkegaard is being published. 

Description

The file contains three worksheets:

- The Overview  sheet provides a series of tables and graphs outlining where Kierkegaard articles and reviews have appeared in the last 14 years. 

- The Data sheet provides a list of all papers included in the underlying data.

- The Journals tab provides information on journal editorial policies, frequency, word limits, number of Kierkegaard items published, and how each journal is ranked according to various sources - most notably the European Science Foundation's European Reference Index for the Humanities (although see the note on journal rankings below).

The data includes journals publishing in all areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences. It does not include articles published in specialist Kierkegaard Studies publications (Kierkegaardiana, Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, Kierkegaard Studiet etc.); articles appearing in undergraduate journals; and (for the time being) articles published in languages other than English. 

The data has been sourced from Philosopher's Index, Google Scholar, and direct searches on journal websites. Additions, comments, corrections and suggestions are most welcome. 

 

A Cautionary Note About Rankings

Please note that the ranking provided here in no way reflects the opinions of the maintainer of this website.

Before using the rankings, I strongly recommend you read the British Philosophical Association's letter regarding the ERIH rankings and the Australasian Association of Philosophy's letter to the Australian Research Council, outlining their serious reservations about these journal ranking exercises. There are good reasons both to be skeptical about the rankings themselves and concerned about their possible side-effects. 

Earlier iterations of this spreadsheet included rankings from the Australian Research Council. While the 2010 rankings are still available online, in late May 2011 the ARC announced it was discontinuing the use of its ranking system. Accordingly, these rankings have now been removed from the spreadsheet.

As of June 2011 several religious studies journals have not yet had their revised ESF rankings released; when they are I'll update the spreadsheet as soon as possible.