Last month’s discussion of book reviews discussed, among other things, the decline in the number of reviews published by Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR). A policy change may reverse tha...
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/08/ndpr-now-welcomes-book-review-proposals/
“The academic peer review system as it currently stands is frustrating and dysfunctional for many of those who participate in it.” So writes David Thunder, Research Fellow in Political Phil...
https://dailynous.com/2024/03/27/the-case-for-a-peer-review-market-guest-post/
Putting together an anthology or volume of collected works? You might want to check your budget. Reprint fees can can be pretty high. An article from Kant-Studien could run you over $4500. One f...
https://dailynous.com/2024/03/05/reprint-fees-higher-than-you-thought/
“I’ve heard people joke on more than a couple of occasions that publishing a book is the way to get around Reviewer 2 at the journals.” An assistant professor of philosophy has a query abou...
https://dailynous.com/2024/02/29/books-vs-articles-in-philosophy/
“The crucial question for any academic system is how filtering works. Information is cheap. What we want is some way to identify the most valuable information.” In the following guest post, ...
https://dailynous.com/2024/02/13/philosophys-digital-future-guest-post/
“In a survey of 27 philosophy of science journal editors we conducted in 2023, many, if not most of them, did not know that they were working in a transformative journal.” A what now? The lan...
https://dailynous.com/2024/02/06/philosophers-should-you-pay-to-publish-your-paper-guest-post/
As stories of philosophy journal horror stories continue to come in, one commenter made a suggestion. If part of the reason for sharing such stories was to possibly reveal some common problems o...
https://dailynous.com/2024/01/29/notably-good-experiences-with-philosophy-journals/
By request, here is a post for people to share their journal “horror stories.” Why? For one thing, it may be a relief to learn that the universe, or at least the journals, are not out to get...
https://dailynous.com/2024/01/25/philosophy-journal-horror-stories/
The University of Chicago Press (UCP) has ceased selling two books about philosophers because their authors did not properly cite sources. Retraction Watch reports that John Venn: A Life in Log...
At the end of October, Utilitas, one of the leading journals in moral philosophy, converted to an open-access publication. The journal states: “all research articles accepted for publication...
https://dailynous.com/2023/11/14/utilitas-becomes-open-access/
“Considering my own area of philosophy of language and mind, I don’t think there is all that much difference between most of what gets published in the ‘top’ journals, and most of what ge...
https://dailynous.com/2023/09/06/journal-articles-quantity-quality/
“It is a classic collective action problem. In that Tragedy of the Commons, the role of the editor is to be The Enforcer, against both self-serving authors in the blogsphere and self-serving co...
https://dailynous.com/2023/08/31/goodin-on-journals-editors-and-publishers/
For a Halloween party back when I was in graduate school, a friend of mine dressed up as his imagined first book. He wore a large cardboard box, roughly the dimensions of book, covered in paper m...
https://dailynous.com/2023/08/07/publishers-to-authors-find-your-own-endorsements/
A couple of years ago, we had a discussion of “Philosophy Journal Horror Stories“. Most of the experiences shared were from the perspective of authors. But authors aren’t the only participa...
The Chronicle of Higher Education has followed up on Wiley’s firing of Robert Goodin (ANU) from the editorship of the Journal of Political Philosophy. As noted previously (see the updates on th...
https://dailynous.com/2023/05/01/the-dispute-between-jpp-wiley/
The following resolution, prompted by recent developments at the Journal of Political Philosophy, was drafted by Simon Căbulea May (Florida State) with input from others. Posted at Change.org, ...
Editors of academic philosophy journals whose content is largely behind paywalls may be interested in applying to a new program from MIT Press that will “cover the expenses of transitioning a j...
https://dailynous.com/2023/02/02/new-project-to-fund-converting-journals-to-open-access/
What should our norms be regarding the publishing of philosophical work created with the help of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or other forms of artificial intelligence? In a recent a...
https://dailynous.com/2023/01/30/norms-for-publishing-work-created-with-ai/
Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, recently published and then retracted two articles by Janusz Czelakowski (Opole) following a discussion at MathOverflow, a site for pr...
James Stacey Taylor, a professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey, is concerned about the problem that “scholars are not verifying the accuracy of their sources,” and offers up a so...
https://dailynous.com/2022/04/12/pay-referees-per-mistake-caught/
Is there a refereeing crisis in philosophy? There has been a fair amount of discussion about this over the past couple of months. What was missing from much of this discussion, though, was data. ...
https://dailynous.com/2022/04/01/a-little-rough-data-about-journal-refereeing-in-philosophy/
I didn’t think this happened anymore, but apparently some philosophy journals still reject or decline to consider manuscripts because they don’t conform to the journal’s or publisher’s st...
A graduate student in philosophy wrote to share that he and another student had been recently booted from an edited collection under contract with Cambridge University Press (CUP) because, he say...
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen complaints from journal editors about the difficulty of finding referees and managing the refereeing process in a timely way but also some commentary su...
https://dailynous.com/2022/02/28/call-for-refereeing-data-from-journal-editors/
At least part of the “referee crisis” in philosophy comes from the fact that many philosophers are never or only rarely asked to referee. How can editors find these relatively untapped refere...
https://dailynous.com/2022/02/21/how-editors-can-use-philpeople-find-referees/
In the following guest post, Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) provides a two-step solution to the referee crisis in philosophy. A version of this post first appeared at Professor Schliesser’s blog, ...
Over at The Philosopher’s Cocoon, Helen de Cruz (SLU) laments her experiences with peer review from the perspective of an editor trying to get submissions refereed, saying “it is my strong su...
https://dailynous.com/2022/02/18/is-peer-review-in-philosophy-broken-beyond-reasonable-repair/
Would “an online, crowd-sourced peer-review system” work better than traditional peer-review as a “quality control device” in philosophy? In a paper forthcoming in The British Journal for...