I claimed yesterday that citations within journals are getting more egalitarian. To verify this, I pulled the citation data for two prominent years: The Journal of Philosophy, 1976 and Philosophical Studies, 2009.
I couldn’t find an easy way to get just the citations in Arts & Humanities, so this table includes all the citations in Web of Science. (I checked a few articles, and the non-humanities citations average around 20% of the total citations, though the articles in political philosophy typically run a fair bit higher than that.)
The citations here are just through 2015; that makes a big difference to the most cited articles from 1976, and to many articles from 2009.
Both years I’m looking at have a number of discussion notes includes. The Journal of Philosophy used to publish papers presented at the APA, and the commentaries on them. So I’ve included a column showing how many pages are in each article, to give you a sense of when an article is really just a discussion note.
First, the citations of articles in The Journal of Philosophy, 1976. I’ve deleted the book reviews, and the discussion notes that were 3 pages or less.
| Title | Author | Cites | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discrimination And Perceptual Knowledge | Goldman, AI | 370 | 21 |
| Schizophrenia Of Modern Ethical Theories | Stocker, M | 172 | 14 |
| Motive Utilitarianism | Adams, RM | 55 | 15 |
| Explanation, Conjunction, And Unification | Kitcher, P | 52 | 6 |
| Putnam’s Theory On Reference Of Substance Terms | Zemach, EM | 40 | 12 |
| Two Types Of Foundationalism | Alston, WP | 36 | 21 |
| Grades Of Discriminability | Quine, WV | 33 | 4 |
| Humes Cognitive Theory Of Pride | Davidson, D | 32 | 14 |
| Worlds Away | Quine, WV | 30 | 5 |
| Truth And Assertibility | Brandom, R | 28 | 13 |
| Knowledge, Causality, And Defeasibility | Klein, PD | 26 | 21 |
| What Is A Logical Constant | Peacocke, C | 22 | 20 |
| Social Choice And Derivation Of Rawls’s Difference Principle | Strasnick, S | 21 | 15 |
| Necessity Of Origin | Mcginn, C | 21 | 9 |
| Counterfactuals With Disjunctive Antecedents | Loewer, B | 17 | 7 |
| Direction Of Causation And Direction Of Conditionship | Sanford, DH | 16 | 15 |
| Save Phenomena | Van Fraassen, BC | 15 | 10 |
| History And Hermeneutics | Ricoeur, P | 13 | 13 |
| Mentality And Neutrality | Rosenthal, DM | 12 | 30 |
| Causation – Matter Of Life And Death | Earman, J | 11 | 21 |
| Psychology Of Benevolence And Its Implications For Philosophy | Brandt, RB | 7 | 25 |
| Comments On Nozicks Entitlement Theory | Davis, L | 7 | 9 |
| Theory Of Language | Harris, Z | 6 | 24 |
| Identity Statements And Microreductions | Enc, B | 6 | 22 |
| Mechanism, Functionalism, And Identity Theory | Nelson, RJ | 6 | 21 |
| Entitlement Theory Of Distributive Justice | Goldman, AH | 6 | 13 |
| Ontological Reduction | Gottlieb, D | 5 | 20 |
| Method For Ontology, With Applications To Numbers And Events | Gottlieb, D | 3 | 15 |
| Inferential Justification And Empiricism | Fumerton, RA | 3 | 13 |
| Discernibility Of Identicals | Moravcsik, JME | 3 | 12 |
| Labor Theory Of Property Acquisition | Becker, LC | 3 | 12 |
| Rawls’s Original Position And Difference Principle | Goldman, AH | 3 | 5 |
| Space And Objects | Oneill, O | 2 | 17 |
| Meaning And Perception | Pastin, M | 2 | 15 |
| Strasnicks Derivation Of Rawlss Difference Principle | Wolff, RP | 2 | 10 |
| Projectability Unscathed | Ullian, J; Goodman, N | 2 | 5 |
| Carrots, Noses, Snow, Rose, Roses | Gass, WH | 1 | 15 |
| Strawson On Predication | Moravcsik, JME | 0 | 20 |
| Practical Reason And Concept Of A Human Being | Scott, S | 0 | 14 |
| Charles Taylor’s Hegel | Soll, I | 0 | 14 |
| Identity Of Indiscernibles | Nagel, G | 0 | 6 |
Next, the citations of articles in Philosophical Studies, 2009. I’ve deleted the articles that were 3 pages or less, and the introductions to the book symposia. I’ve left the rest of the symposia in, though many of these have very few citations. (The symposia contributions mostly are around 10 pages or so.)
| Title | Author | Cites | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge and credit | Lackey, Jennifer | 35 | 16 |
| Spacetime the one substance | Schaffer, Jonathan | 31 | 18 |
| Means-end coherence, stringency, and subjective reasons | Schroeder, Mark | 30 | 26 |
| Absence of evidence and evidence of absence | Sober, Elliott | 28 | 28 |
| Shared intention and personal intentions | Gilbert, Margaret | 28 | 21 |
| Models and fictions in science | Godfrey-Smith, Peter | 27 | 16 |
| Knowledge and success from ability | Greco, John | 25 | 10 |
| Oughts and ends | Finlay, Stephen | 25 | 26 |
| Modest sociality and the distinctiveness of intention | Bratman, Michael E. | 20 | 17 |
| Weighing the aim of belief | Steglich-Petersen, Asbjorn | 20 | 11 |
| Thought-experiment intuitions and truth in fiction | Ichikawa, Jonathan; Jarvis, Benjamin | 19 | 26 |
| A better best system account of lawhood | Cohen, Jonathan; Callender, Craig | 19 | 34 |
| A Virtue Epistemology | Pritchard, Duncan | 17 | 10 |
| In defense of adaptive preferences | Bruckner, Donald W. | 17 | 18 |
| Models, measurement and computer simulation | Morrison, Margaret | 16 | 25 |
| Epistemology without metaphysics | Field, Hartry | 16 | 42 |
| The possibility of pragmatic reasons for belief | Reisner, Andrew | 15 | 16 |
| Determination, realization and mental causation | Wilson, Jessica | 15 | 21 |
| Motivated contextualism | Henderson, David | 15 | 13 |
| Individuals | Dasgupta, Shamik | 14 | 33 |
| The folk on knowing how | Bengson, John; Moffett, Marc A.; Wright, Jennifer C. | 14 | 15 |
| The neural evidence for simulation is weaker than I think you think it is | Saxe, Rebecca | 13 | 10 |
| Empathy, social psychology, and global helping traits | Miller, Christian B. | 13 | 29 |
| Self-representationalism and phenomenology | Kriegel, Uriah | 13 | 25 |
| Intuitions are inclinations to believe | Earlenbaugh, Joshua; Molyneux, Bernard | 12 | 21 |
| The logic, intentionality, and phenomenology of emotion | Montague, Michelle | 11 | 22 |
| The open future | Barnes, Elizabeth; Cameron, Ross | 11 | 19 |
| Revisionism about free will | Vargas, Manuel | 11 | 18 |
| The perils of Perrin, in the hands of philosophers | van Fraassen, Bas C. | 11 | 20 |
| Inter-species variation in colour perception | Allen, Keith | 11 | 24 |
| Assertion, Moore, and Bayes | Douven, Igor | 11 | 15 |
| What good is a diachronic will? | Ferrero, Luca | 10 | 28 |
| Knowing full well | Sosa, Ernest | 9 | 11 |
| Moral judgment purposivism | Bedke, M. S. | 9 | 21 |
| Replies | Williamson, Timothy | 9 | 12 |
| A new argument for skepticism | Reed, Baron | 9 | 14 |
| Imagination and other scripts | Funkhouser, Eric; Spaulding, Shannon | 9 | 24 |
| Dubious assertions | Sosa, David | 9 | 4 |
| Evidence-based policy | Cartwright, Nancy | 8 | 10 |
| Indeterminacy and variability in meta-ethics | Gill, Michael B. | 8 | 20 |
| Reduction and emergence: a critique of Kim | Needham, Paul | 8 | 24 |
| The irrationality of recalcitrant emotions | Brady, Michael S. | 8 | 18 |
| Experience and self-consciousness | Schear, Joseph K. | 8 | 11 |
| Semantic intuitions, conceptual analysis, and cross-cultural variation | Jackman, Henry | 7 | 19 |
| Compatibilism & desert | McKenna, Michael | 7 | 11 |
| Drawing the boundary between low-level and high-level mindreading | de Vignemont, Frederique | 7 | 10 |
| A consistent way with paradox | Goldstein, Laurence | 7 | 13 |
| Utterance at a distance | Stevens, Graham | 7 | 9 |
| Concept Cartesianism, Concept Pragmatism, and Frege Cases | Rives, Bradley | 6 | 28 |
| Triviality arguments against functionalism | Godfrey-Smith, Peter | 6 | 23 |
| Hard incompatibilism and its rivals | Pereboom, Derk | 6 | 13 |
| Imaginability, morality, and fictional truth | Todd, Cain Samuel | 5 | 25 |
| Is computer simulation changing the face of experimentation? | Giere, Ronald N. | 5 | 4 |
| Contextualism, relativism and ordinary speakers’ judgments | Montminy, Martin | 5 | 16 |
| Structural equations and causation | Hitchcock, Christopher | 5 | 11 |
| Moral responsibility and agents’ histories | Mele, Alfred | 5 | 21 |
| Summation relations and portions of stuff | Donnelly, Maureen; Bittner, Thomas | 5 | 19 |
| Luminous enough for a cognitive home | Fumerton, Richard | 5 | 10 |
| Virtuous intuitions | Boghossian, Paul | 4 | 9 |
| Randomized controlled trials and the flow of information | Roush, Sherrilyn | 4 | 9 |
| Replies | Goldman, Alvin I. | 4 | 15 |
| Neither here nor there | Debes, Remy | 4 | 27 |
| Knowing the intuition and knowing the counterfactual | Ichikawa, Jonathan | 4 | 9 |
| Against Cognitivism about Practical Rationality | Brunero, John | 4 | 15 |
| Advice for fallibilists | Fantl, Jeremy; McGrath, Matthew | 4 | 12 |
| Towards a semantics for biscuit conditionals | Predelli, Stefano | 4 | 13 |
| Reference, perception, and attention | Raftopoulos, Athanasios | 4 | 22 |
| On doing better, experimental-style | Weinberg, Jonathan M. | 4 | 10 |
| Simulation and the first-person | Carruthers, Peter | 4 | 9 |
| The modal status of materialism | Levine, Joseph; Trogdon, Kelly | 4 | 12 |
| Moral advice and moral theory | Leibowitz, Uri D. | 4 | 11 |
| Promises beyond assurance | Southwood, Nicholas; Friedrich, Daniel | 4 | 20 |
| Intentional psychologism | Pitt, David | 4 | 22 |
| Restricting factiveness | Stjernberg, Fredrik | 4 | 20 |
| Replies to commentators | Sosa, Ernest | 3 | 11 |
| I won’t do it | Louise, Jennie | 3 | 22 |
| Truth-conditions, truth-bearers and the new B-theory of time | Torre, Stephan | 3 | 20 |
| Defending a possibilist insight in consequentialist thought | Vessel, Jean-Paul | 3 | 13 |
| Non-identity, self-defeat, and attitudes to future children | Kahane, Guy | 3 | 22 |
| Liberalism and the general justifiability of punishment | Hanna, Nathan | 3 | 25 |
| Virtue theory, ideal observers, and the supererogatory | Kawall, Jason | 3 | 18 |
| The Loop Case and Kamm’s Doctrine of Triple Effect | Liao, S. Matthew | 3 | 9 |
| Objective evidence and absence | Strevens, Michael | 3 | 10 |
| The myth of the categorical counterfactual | Barnett, David | 3 | 16 |
| Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori | Warenski, Lisa | 3 | 24 |
| Difficult times for Humean identity? | Garrett, Don | 3 | 9 |
| Normativity without artifice | Bauer, Mark | 3 | 21 |
| Bennett and proxy actualism | Nelson, Michael; Zalta, Edward N. | 3 | 16 |
| Reliabilism in philosophy | Goldberg, Sanford C. | 3 | 13 |
| Sosa in perspective | Kornblith, Hilary | 3 | 10 |
| Parity, incomparability and rationally justified choice | Boot, Martijn | 2 | 18 |
| Reupholstering a discipline | Martin, M. G. F. | 2 | 9 |
| Contextualism, safety and epistemic relevance | Blome-Tillmann, Michael | 2 | 12 |
| Simulation a la Goldman | Perner, Josef; Brandl, Johannes L. | 2 | 12 |
| Bootstrapping and knowledge of reliability | Brueckner, Anthony; Buford, Christopher T. | 2 | 6 |
| Why is a truth-predicate like a pronoun? | Bave, Arvid | 2 | 14 |
| Replies | Sosa, Ernest | 2 | 14 |
| Physicalism and sparse ontology | Trogdon, Kelly | 2 | 19 |
| Analyzing a priori knowledge | Casullo, Albert | 2 | 14 |
| Fodor’s riddle of abduction | Rellihan, Matthew J. | 2 | 26 |
| Knowledge as aptness | Cohen, Stewart | 2 | 5 |
| Libertarianism | Kane, Robert | 2 | 10 |
| Defense | Draper, Kai | 2 | 20 |
| Aggregation, Partiality, and the Strong Beneficence Principle | Dorsey, Dale | 1 | 19 |
| Comments | Dreyfus, Hubert L. | 1 | 8 |
| Indirect perceptual realism and demonstratives | Brown, Derek Henry | 1 | 18 |
| A problem for Russellian theories of belief | Ostertag, Gary | 1 | 19 |
| Replies | Baxter, Donald L. M. | 1 | 11 |
| Science fictions | Fine, Arthur | 1 | 9 |
| Plural signification and the Liar paradox | Read, Stephen | 1 | 13 |
| Against structured referring expressions | Sullivan, Arthur | 1 | 26 |
| The fate of a warrior culture | Sherman, Nancy | 1 | 10 |
| Is knowledge a natural kind? | Pernu, Tuomas K. | 1 | 16 |
| The fixity of reasons | Gallois, Andre Norman | 1 | 16 |
| The event of color | Pasnau, Robert | 1 | 17 |
| Ineliminable tension | Lenard, Patti Tamara; Moore, Margaret R. | 0 | 7 |
| What is wrong with the indeterminacy of language-attribution? | Khatchirian, Arpy | 0 | 25 |
| The a priori defended | Thurow, Joshua C. | 0 | 17 |
| The Chrysippus intuition and contextual theories of truth | Newhard, Jay | 0 | 8 |
| Two-dimensionalism and the epistemology of recognition | Valaris, Markos | 0 | 19 |
| Trumping the causal influence account of causation | Stone, Jim | 0 | 8 |
| Who they are and what de se | Giberman, Daniel | 0 | 15 |
| Evidentialism and the problem of stored beliefs | Piazza, Tommaso | 0 | 14 |
| Response | Lear, Jonathan | 0 | 13 |
| Perilous thoughts | Longino, Helen | 0 | 8 |
| Ultimacy and alternative possibilities | Fischer, John Martin | 0 | 6 |
| Hume and Baxter on identity over time | Falkenstein, Lorne | 0 | 9 |
| Noncomparabilism in epistemology | Wunderlich, Mark Emerson | 0 | 19 |
| The inessential quasi-indexical | Alward, Peter | 0 | 21 |
| A Virtue Epistemology, vol 1 | Conee, Earl | 0 | 10 |
| Justification and awareness | Markie, Peter J. | 0 | 17 |
| Hume and Frege on identity | Perry, John | 0 | 11 |
| Fictions within fictions | Hayaki, Reina | 0 | 20 |
| Reliability as a virtue | Audi, Robert | 0 | 12 |
| The ethics of morphing | Hare, Caspar | 0 | 20 |
| Sosa on scepticism | Brown, Jessica | 0 | 9 |
Now on the one hand there are a lot of articles here that didn’t get a lot of citations by 2015. On the other hand, there are 48 articles that had at least 7 citations (so at least 1/year), by 2015. That’s a huge number, and that’s why Philosophical Studies is getting so many citations – it publishes so many things that get at least some uptake. And that, I think, is very impressive.