''The Journal of Political Philosophy'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering all aspects of
political philosophy
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.
Controversy
The journal became engaged in a controversy when it published three articles on
Black Lives Matter
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, each written by white academics and previously presented at a conference on that subject. The controversy began when Yale professor Christopher Lebron published an "open letter" criticising the journal for not having included "philosophers of color" in the symposium. Lebron further claimed that the journal had not, up to that point, published on race since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement began, and that it had not published a philosopher of color since the journal's inception. The conference organizers pointed out that they had invited philosophers of color to contribute to the symposium but that none had chosen to. Others noted that the Journal of Political Philosophy had published on race since the beginning of Black Lives Matter movement, and that they had published philosophers of color - indeed, the journal was co-founded by Chandran Kukathas, a philosopher of color. The editors issued a formal apology, promised to add at least two African American academics to the editorial board, and committed to seeking more works written by non-white academics.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2015
impact factor
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of 1.044, ranking it 63rd out of 163 journals in the category "Political Science" and 24th out of 51 journals in the category "Ethics".
See also
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List of ethics journals
This is a list of peer-reviewed, academic journals in the field of ethics.
''Note'': there are many important academic magazines that are not true peer-reviewed journals. They are not listed here.
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List of political science journals
This is a list of political science journals presenting representative academic journals in the field of political science.
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*''Acta Politica''
*''African Affairs''
*''American Journal of Political Science''
*''American Political Science Revi ...
References
External links
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English-language journals
Political philosophy journals
Quarterly journals
Publications established in 1993
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
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