Language English Frequency 18 issues per year | Publication history 1936–present | |
Publisher Springer (International) Impact factor 0.477(2 years)0.512 (5 years)(2008) | ||
Synthese is a scholarly periodical edited by Otávio Bueno, Wiebe van der Hoek, Gila Sher, and Catarina Dutilh Novaes specializing in papers in epistemology, methodology, and philosophy of science. Published articles include specific treatment of methodological issues in science such as induction, probability, causation, statistics, symbolic logic, linguistics and ethics. The name Synthese (from the Dutch for synthesis) finds its origin in the intentions of its founding editors: making explicit the supposed internal coherence between the different, highly specialised scientific disciplines.
Contents
"A special section on Knowledge, Rationality and Action offers a platform for researchers interested in a formal approach to the process comprising rational behavior, from gathering and representing information, through reasoning and decision making to acting."
Notable articles
Indexing & Abstracting
As of June 2014, Google scholar ranked Synthese as the most influential journal in philosophy.
Other indices and abstracting services in which the journal is found include: Linguistic Bibliography, Bibliography of Linguistic Literature, Current Abstracts, Current Contents (Arts and Humanities), Current Index to Statistics, DBLP, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, Digital Mathematics Registry, Family & Society Studies Worldwide, FRANCIS, International Bibliography of Book Reviews (IBR), Journal Citation Reports (Science and Social Sciences Editions), MathEDUC, Mathematical Reviews, Mathematics Education, MLA International Bibliography, PASCAL, Referativnyi Zhurnal, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, Répertoire Bibliographique de la Philosophie, Science Citation Index, SCOPUS, Social Science Citation Index, Summon by Serial Solutions, The Philosopher's Index, TOC Premier, Zentralblatt Math
Editorial Decision Controversies
The printed version of the special issue Evolution and Its Rivals of the journal, which appeared two years after the online version, was supplied with a disclaimer from the then editors of the journal that "appeared to undermine [the authors] and the guest editors." This disclaimer was added without consent of the editors of the special issue and is not present in the online version.
"Due to an unfortunate human error", one of the articles accepted to the special issue Logic and Relativity Theory of the journal was not sent by the guest editor to the editors of the journal for approval as the then current policies had required. Upon the discovery of this discrepancy, the then editors of the journal have imposed a moratorium on new special issues for approximately two-three months pending review of the policies. Details here: