Journal Prestige Advice for Graduate Students
I don't have time to blog much nowadays, but I want to keep this place active. One recurring use for the site is to outline to things that I find myself having to repeat; better to just have a place I can link people back. So I am going to do that here with a common piece of careerist publication advice I give junior scholars in philosophy. I often have graduate students ask me how publishing in such and such a journal will be perceived by others in the field. This is a somewhat complicated question for me as I am on-the-record sceptic about journals being good quality guides . So I always have to caveat a bit by at least telling people to go read my paper on this if they are interested. (Though of course I sometimes have to caveat a bit in the other direction - despite what I think of the current system, if someone under the present culture and incentive structure does not try to get their paper published through peer review that can be a negative quality signal too...