Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A philosophy department tenure committee reviewing a faculty member's publication list and contextualizing Hypatia's 1.5 JIF within the extended citation half-life characteristic of humanities scholarship rather than relying on raw STEM journal percentiles.
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A researcher citing Hypatia's 2.9 Scopus CiteScore and 1.927 SNIP to illustrate its normalized disciplinary influence across gender studies and feminist philosophy while noting that the quarterly journal is governed independently by Hypatia, Inc.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
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Using Hypatia's 1.5 Journal Impact Factor as a direct proxy for the quality, depth, or intellectual merit of an individual philosophical article published in the journal.
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Confusing Hypatia's 4-year Scopus CiteScore (2.9) with its 2-year Clarivate Journal Impact Factor (1.5), which reflect differing citation windows and indexing bases.
Editorial commentary
Quick answer: Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy reports a 2-year Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of 1.5 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 2.2 in the Clarivate Journal Citation Reports, as displayed on its official Cambridge Core journal metrics page (checked 7 November 2026). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, with a Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) of 1.927. Per DORA principles, these journal-level indicators evaluate the journal aggregate, not individual philosophical papers.
What the Hypatia journal impact factor measures
The Journal Impact Factor for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy measures the average citation rate of citable items published in the journal over a two-year citation window. The 2-year JIF reflects citations received in a given data year to peer-reviewed articles and reviews published during the two preceding years. Because humanities scholarship differs from laboratory sciences, citation patterns in philosophy evolve over years rather than months.
In academic philosophy, where scholarship centers on normative analysis and conceptual critique (explored further in our overview on what is philosophy), journal-level metrics offer an administrative snapshot of citation volume rather than a proxy for philosophical significance.
Current metrics for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
The metrics below reflect data reported on Cambridge Core (Cambridge University Press) on behalf of Hypatia, Inc., checked on 7 November 2026. Because metric calculations are updated annually, researchers should cite the data year and index when referencing these values.
| Metric Framework | Reported Value | Measurement Window | Primary Index / Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Journal Impact Factor (JIF) | 1.5 | 2-Year Window | Clarivate Journal Citation Reports (JCR) |
| 5-Year Impact Factor | 2.2 | 5-Year Window | Clarivate Journal Citation Reports (JCR) |
| CiteScore | 2.9 | 4-Year Window | Scopus / Elsevier |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) | 1.927 | Discipline-Normalized | CWTS Leiden / Scopus |
| Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) | 0.631 | Prestige-Weighted | SCImago / Scopus |
| Eigenfactor Score | 0.00194 | Network-Weighted | Clarivate JCR |
| Article Influence Score | 1.032 | Per-Article Prestige | Clarivate JCR |
Calculation methodology and indexing differences
Understanding the distinction between Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor and Elsevier’s CiteScore is critical for evaluation. Clarivate calculates the 2-year JIF by dividing citations in the target year by the count of citable items (articles and reviews). CiteScore calculates citations across a four-year window to all document types, resulting in distinct numeric baselines.
Field-normalized metrics like SNIP (1.927) weight citations relative to total citation volume in the subject area. In philosophy subdisciplines with lower raw citation counts than biomedical fields, SNIP corrects for field density, providing balanced comparative context.
Editorial governance and scholarly practice
Hypatia was founded in the mid-1980s, emerging from the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP). The journal is owned and governed by Hypatia, Inc., and published quarterly by Cambridge University Press (Print ISSN: 0887-5367; Online ISSN: 1527-2001). Submissions undergo double-anonymous peer review, ensuring manuscripts are evaluated without author identification.
Institutions evaluating faculty scholarship must uphold established principles of research ethics. Administrative review panels must avoid conflating journal selectivity with the quality of a scholar’s ethical or philosophical analysis.
Responsible assessment and DORA guidelines
Both Cambridge University Press and CASRAI endorse the DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment) recommendations, which caution against using journal-level metrics as proxies for individual research quality. In philosophy, where monographs and book chapters carry significant weight alongside journal articles, evaluating an author based on a journal’s 1.5 JIF distorts individual assessments.
Hiring committees and grant reviewers should assess individual articles based on conceptual rigor and contribution to scholarship, rather than relying on aggregate citation indices.
Sources
- Cambridge University Press, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Information & Metrics, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia (read 2026-11-07).
- Hypatia, Inc., About Hypatia Governance and Mission, https://hypatiaphilosophy.org/about/ (read 2026-11-07).
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