Global Philosophy

About Global Philosophy

Overview

Global Philosophy is a general journal of philosophy published by Springer (Springer Nature) in the Netherlands. It is the new name, adopted in 2023, of the journal previously published as Axiomathes, and it carries the same Springer journal code, 10516, the same publisher and a continuous publication history under the new title. Its print ISSN is 2948-152X and its electronic ISSN is 2948-1538, the pair recorded in the stored record for this JournalsWorld post, in the journal information on Springer's own site and in OpenAlex. Springer's stated ambition for the renamed journal is explicit: to be a general journal of philosophy for the entire community, regardless of geography or philosophical tradition, opening the conversation to qualified philosophers who have been left out of narrower, culturally or geographically limited discourses.

For directory readers, the essentials are these. The journal is a hybrid Springer title: most articles are published on the subscription route, with an optional open access route (Springer's Open Choice) for authors who want or whose funders require immediate open access, and it is therefore not a DOAJ-listed journal — DOAJ searches for both ISSNs at checking time returned no record, and none is claimed here. It operates double-blind peer review through Springer's SNAPP system. Its current Editor-in-Chief, named on Springer's journal page, is Ramón Alvarado, with Oluwaseun Damilola Sanwoolu as Managing Editor. Springer lists a Journal Impact Factor of 0.6 for 2025, a median of 17 days from submission to first decision, and 143.3k downloads in 2025, each figure attributed to Springer in the metrics section below. OpenAlex, resolved through the ISSN endpoint, records 156 works and 206 citations for the new title's own ISSNs. The predecessor title, Axiomathes, has its own separate JournalsWorld record (post 28649, still thin), and because the two titles share no ISSN at all, the pair is a rename/continuation item for the site owner's decision class rather than a duplicate: the relationship, and the evidence for it, are set out in full below so the two records are never mistaken for twins.

Identity and Bibliographic Record

The bibliographic identity of Global Philosophy rests on two ISSNs assigned to the new title: print ISSN 2948-152X and electronic ISSN 2948-1538. Springer's own journal information page, fetched for this profile, gives the assignment in exactly that form ("Electronic ISSN 2948-1538; Print ISSN 2948-152X"), and OpenAlex, resolved through the ISSN endpoint at the time of checking (source S4387287567), carries the same pair with 2948-152X as ISSN-L and Springer Science+Business Media as host organisation. The journal is published from the Netherlands, matching the stored record's country, and its articles carry DOIs under the prefix 10.1007/s10516, where the journal code 10516 is the same code the predecessor title used — a small but telling continuity marker in every citation.

The predecessor's identity is equally well documented. Axiomathes carried print ISSN 1122-1151 and online ISSN 1572-8390, the pair shown on its own JournalsWorld record (post 28649, a thin template record of 238 words at checking time) and in standard citation-style listings for the title. Its scope, in its own classic statement, covered evolving ideas, perspectives and methods in science, mathematics and philosophy, with scholarly depth, quality and precision as prerequisites, and it welcomed submissions regardless of tradition, school of thought or disciplinary background. Publisher's records in the stored JournalsWorld data give both titles the same publisher code, consistent with a single Springer journal continuing under a new name. The two titles share no ISSN: 1122-1151 and 1572-8390 belong only to Axiomathes; 2948-152X and 2948-1538 belong only to Global Philosophy. That zero overlap is exactly why this is reported as an owner-class rename/continuation pair — Global Philosophy (29416) continuing Axiomathes (28649) — and not as a twin, a hold or a merge pair under the site's duplicate rules. Any future decision to combine, cross-link or keep both records belongs to that owner class; this profile simply documents the lineage on the current-title record, where a reader arriving from a search engine most needs it.

History: From Axiomathes to Global Philosophy

The journal's earlier life as Axiomathes was long and specialised. Its JournalsWorld record gives its coverage as 1993–2023, aggregator listings likewise place its run from the early 1990s to 2023, and under that name it published studies at the meeting point of philosophy, mathematics and the sciences — foundational questions, methodology, and the conceptual frameworks of a science whose nature its scope statement described as changing under the pressure of complexity, network dynamics, anticipatory systems and related ideas. It appeared four times a year in its later period, was edited for many years within the philosophy of science community, and built the citation record reflected in its stored h-index figure of 25 on its JournalsWorld record — a figure that belongs to the predecessor's three decades, not to the young new title, and is flagged here so that no reader transfers it across the rename.

The rename was announced by Springer in 2023. The publisher's aims and scope page states it plainly: "We are happy to announce Global Philosophy as the new name of our journal", and it points readers to the editorial that sets out the new scope (DOI 10.1007/s10516-023-09678-y). That editorial, "The Ideal of Global Philosophy in an Age of Deglobalization", argues that philosophy had fragmented into national and local conversations, each with its own concerns and way of thinking, and that online platforms now make a genuinely democratic, worldwide conversation achievable as never before. Its editor wrote that while he held the role the journal would be based in the United States, that he hoped most of the editorial board would within a few years be drawn from outside the English-speaking world, and that the journal would serve as a friendly interlocutor to the national philosophies emerging around the world — closing with the sentence that marks the transition itself: patience was asked "in the years ahead as Axiomathes becomes Global Philosophy". The first issues under the new name appeared in 2023, which is why the stored record's coverage for this post correctly begins in 2023 even though the journal's own history reaches back three decades further under its old name.

Under its current leadership the journal has consolidated the new identity. Springer's journal page, fetched for this profile, names Ramón Alvarado as Editor-in-Chief and Oluwaseun Damilola Sanwoolu as Managing Editor, shows a live programme of topical collections — including a 2026 collection on epistemology, science, imagination and hermeneutics — and lists current articles from authors and topics across several continents, from the philosophy of technology and political philosophy to film philosophy and postcolonial perspectives, which is the announced global remit operating in practice.

Scope and Subjects

The current scope is deliberately the widest a philosophy journal can state. Springer's overview says the journal "welcomes submissions from all areas of philosophy" and intends "to be a general journal of philosophy for the entire community regardless of geography or philosophical tradition". The aims and scope page frames the ideal behind that breadth: to go beyond private, sectarian, cultural and geographically limited discourses and open the conversation to all qualified philosophers. Authors should read that breadth accurately. It is not an absence of standards — the predecessor's insistence on scholarly depth, quality and precision is the house tradition the journal inherits, and its review process below is a full double-blind Springer process — but a refusal to fence the journal into one tradition, region or subfield.

OpenAlex topic data, resolved from the new title's own ISSNs at checking time, shows what the renamed journal has actually published so far: its largest clusters are Epistemology, Ethics and Metaphysics; Philosophy and Theoretical Science; Philosophy and History of Science; Cybernetics and Technology in Society; and Philosophy, Science and History. The philosophy-of-science weight in that list is the inheritance from Axiomathes showing through the early volumes of the new title; the ethics, metaphysics and technology clusters show the broadening the rename promised. A manuscript in any area of philosophy — analytic or continental, historical or contemporary, from any philosophical tradition — is within the stated scope, and the journal's collection calls, such as its epistemology collection noted above, are the practical signal of where its editors are actively building.

Editorial Process and Peer Review

Springer's submission guidelines for this journal, fetched in full for this profile, describe a double-blind (double anonymous) reviewing procedure run through the SNAPP system, to which the journal recently switched. Because review is anonymous, authors submit author details and statements through the system's interface rather than in the manuscript, and must keep identifying information out of the text and files; the guidelines ask authors to have all required details and declarations ready at submission. Manuscripts are submitted online through the "Submit manuscript" route, with editable source files (Word .docx or LaTeX) required at every submission and revision; incomplete source files will keep a paper from being considered for review. A submission implies the work has not been published before and is not under consideration elsewhere, and permissions evidence is required for any previously published figures, tables or passages reused.

The manuscript apparatus is standard Springer: an abstract of 150 to 250 words (extendable to 450 where reporting needs require), four to six keywords, a title page with author names, affiliations and the corresponding author's active email and ORCID where one exists, statements and declarations including competing interests, and references cited by name and year in the text with an alphabetised reference list giving DOIs as full links wherever they exist. Large language models cannot satisfy the journal's authorship criteria, as the guidelines state; their use must be documented in the manuscript, while AI-assisted copy editing of human-generated text needs no declaration, with human accountability for the final text resting on the authors. Springer reports a median of 17 days from submission to first decision for this journal in its 2025 listing — a figure attributed here to Springer, which reflects the speed of the first (often editorial) decision rather than of full review.

Metrics and What They Mean

Springer publishes the headline metrics for this journal in its own journals listing, and those figures are used here with attribution: publishing model Hybrid; Journal Impact Factor 0.6 (2025); downloads 143.3k (2025); submission to first decision (median) 17 days. The impact factor is a young title's figure — the new ISSNs date only from 2023, so the journal is being measured on its first volumes under the new name, and its number should not be compared with the predecessor title's long-run record. The stored template for this post quoted an h-index of 5 and a Q2 label. Against sources fetched for this profile, the h-index of 5 is best read as a Scopus-derived snapshot of the kind SCImago publishes (Springer lists SCImago among the services in which the journal is abstracted and indexed), while OpenAlex, resolved through the ISSN endpoint at checking time (S4387287567), gives a larger corpus view: 156 works, of which 67 open access, 206 citations, an h-index of 7, an i10-index of 3 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.68. The two h-indices measure different corpora over the same short life of the new title, so their difference is a coverage effect, not a contradiction. No quartile is asserted in this profile beyond noting the template's Q2 label, because no SCImago category table for this specific title was fetched in full; authors who need the current quartile should consult SCImago directly for the Philosophy category and year that concerns them.

One further figure deserves care. The predecessor record's h-index of 25 (on post 28649) reflects thirty years of Axiomathes; it would be a plain error to quote it as a metric of Global Philosophy, whose own record begins in 2023. Keeping the two titles' metrics apart is the bibliometric counterpart of the owner-class note in this profile: same journal lineage, different ISSNs, different measurement windows.

Indexing and Discoverability

Springer's journal information page lists the services in which the journal is abstracted and indexed, and the list fetched for this profile runs to twenty-five entries: Arts & Humanities Citation Index; BFI List; Baidu; CLOCKSS; CNKI; CNPIEC; the Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS) listing; Dimensions; EBSCO; ERIH PLUS; Google Scholar; the Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST); Naver; the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series; OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service; Ovid Discovery; PhilPapers; the Philosopher's Index; Portico; ProQuest; SCImago; Scopus; TD Net Discovery Service; Wanfang; and eLibrary.ru. For a philosophy journal, the discipline-specific entries carry particular weight: PhilPapers and the Philosopher's Index are where philosophers actually search, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index is the Web of Science humanities index, and Scopus coverage feeds the SCImago data discussed above. Preservation is covered by CLOCKSS and Portico, both in the list. As recorded in the overview, the journal is not in DOAJ — it is a hybrid title, and DOAJ searches for 2948-1538 and 2948-152X both returned zero results at checking time — so no DOAJ claim is made.

Fees and Open Access Options

As a hybrid journal, Global Philosophy offers two routes. The standard route is subscription publication: no author-facing charge is recorded for it in the sources fetched for this profile, and the article appears behind the journal's normal access controls. The optional route is Open Choice, Springer's open access programme, under which an article is made open access immediately on publication, the author retains copyright, and the article is published under a Creative Commons licence, as Springer's guidelines describe. OpenAlex records the open access charge for this journal in its source data — an APC price list showing USD 2,290, with a 2025 year figure of USD 2,290 (and a EUR price of 3,190 recorded for 2024) — and those figures are reported here attributed to OpenAlex, as the directory-level record of the charge at checking time; authors should confirm the current charge and any institutional agreement or waiver on Springer's site before committing, since transformative agreements cover the charge for many affiliations. What must not be done is to pay any third party claiming to collect this journal's fees.

How to Submit

Submissions are made online through Springer's system, reached from the "Submit manuscript" link on the journal page, with the SNAPP double anonymous process described above. Practical preparation, drawn from the fetched guidelines, is as follows. Draft in any area of philosophy, framed for a general philosophical readership rather than a single national tradition, since that is the journal's stated community. Prepare the manuscript in Word or LaTeX with editable source files complete, an abstract of 150–250 words and four to six keywords. Anonymise the manuscript and files for double-blind review, and hold author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding and competing-interest declarations ready to enter in the system interface, where the published versions of those statements are taken from. Cite by name and year, list references alphabetically with DOI links, and follow the guidelines on tables, artwork and supplementary information where your article uses them. Authors interested in the journal's topical collections should check the collections pages on the journal site, where calls such as the epistemology collection are announced with their own submission information.

Similar Journals

The closest comparator is the journal's own predecessor: Axiomathes (post 28649 on this site) is the same journal before 2023, specialised in philosophy, mathematics and science, and citations to it remain part of this journal's lineage rather than a rival venue. Among current Springer philosophy titles, Synthese is the large general journal with an epistemology and philosophy of science centre of gravity; Topoi publishes across philosophy with a strong article and special-issue programme; and Philosophia is a broad-scope Springer philosophy journal with a long history. Global Philosophy differs from each in its explicit founding ideal: a general philosophy journal constituted, from its 2023 relaunch, to draw its authors, editors and readers from the whole world and every tradition, rather than from one field's or one region's conversation.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the ISSNs of Global Philosophy? Print ISSN 2948-152X and electronic ISSN 2948-1538, per Springer's own journal information page and OpenAlex.

Is Global Philosophy the same journal as Axiomathes? It is the renamed continuation of the same Springer journal: Springer announced Global Philosophy as the new name of Axiomathes in 2023, the journal code 10516 and publisher continue, and a 2023 editorial (DOI 10.1007/s10516-023-09678-y) sets out the change. The two titles have entirely separate ISSN pairs, and Axiomathes has its own record on this site (post 28649); the pair is an owner-class rename/continuation item, not a duplicate.

Who publishes it, and who edits it? Springer (Springer Nature), Netherlands. Springer's journal page names Ramón Alvarado as Editor-in-Chief and Oluwaseun Damilola Sanwoolu as Managing Editor.

What does it publish? Submissions from all areas of philosophy, as a general journal for the entire philosophical community regardless of geography or tradition, per Springer's stated scope.

How does peer review work, and how fast is a first decision? Double-blind (double anonymous) review through Springer's SNAPP system, with anonymised manuscripts and declarations entered in the system interface. Springer lists a median of 17 days from submission to first decision (2025).

Is it open access? Is it in DOAJ? It is a hybrid journal: subscription publication as standard, with optional Open Choice open access under a Creative Commons licence with copyright retained by the author. It is not DOAJ-listed; searches for both ISSNs returned no DOAJ record at checking time. OpenAlex records an open access charge of USD 2,290 (2025 figure) for the OA route.

What are its metrics? Springer lists a Journal Impact Factor of 0.6 (2025) and 143.3k downloads (2025). OpenAlex at checking time: 156 works, 206 citations, h-index 7, i10-index 3. The stored template's h-index 5 is a Scopus-derived snapshot; the predecessor Axiomathes' h-index of 25 belongs to that title's separate record and history.

Where is it indexed? In Scopus, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, PhilPapers, the Philosopher's Index, ERIH PLUS, Dimensions, EBSCO, ProQuest and twenty further services listed on Springer's journal page and reproduced in the indexing section above.