After being on a committee to consider tenure nominations from a variety of departments where journal acceptance rates were exceedingly low, I was curious about what those rates would be in the hard sciences. I inquired about Physics Review, a premier jnl in that field. The answer shocked me--96% acceptance rate.
I'm not planning on a journal submission but I got a lot of help from OpenAI Deep Research in writing a paper claiming to dispel Hempel's Raven Paradox. Mostly, DR took the role of defending the orthodox position, but eventually being persuaded by me, much in the manner of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront. You can read it here.
Economics has similarly high rejection rates and a similar cultural snobbery (at least in top places) about publishing too much. But there are many more economists, and we all need to publish somewhere. So we get a hierarchy which consists of the Top 5 (if you don't know, you don't need to), then the top field journals, then the OK journals (at least 90 per cent rejection rate), and then the places you only go if you are desperate.
After being on a committee to consider tenure nominations from a variety of departments where journal acceptance rates were exceedingly low, I was curious about what those rates would be in the hard sciences. I inquired about Physics Review, a premier jnl in that field. The answer shocked me--96% acceptance rate.
Yep.
Eric, do you have a source in mind for the claim about the stabilization of philosophy enrollments?
I had this in mind. Maybe a bit worse than I remembered
Link?
But this is most recent
https://dailynous.com/2025/10/15/the-plummeting-philosophy-major-in-the-us-guest-post/
This is what I remembered
https://dailynous.com/2022/08/24/the-philosophy-major-continues-to-recover-and-diversify-in-the-u-s-guest-post/
I'm not planning on a journal submission but I got a lot of help from OpenAI Deep Research in writing a paper claiming to dispel Hempel's Raven Paradox. Mostly, DR took the role of defending the orthodox position, but eventually being persuaded by me, much in the manner of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront. You can read it here.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gjipqdh7n5lilzxe3jdal/Ravens.pdf?rlkey=4m2jsvuzbw1eab1ru2r4r7b4j&dl=0
Economics has similarly high rejection rates and a similar cultural snobbery (at least in top places) about publishing too much. But there are many more economists, and we all need to publish somewhere. So we get a hierarchy which consists of the Top 5 (if you don't know, you don't need to), then the top field journals, then the OK journals (at least 90 per cent rejection rate), and then the places you only go if you are desperate.
I am curious what you have in mind in footnote 3.
I think the polititest way to put it is to say, Law reviews are organized to create obstacles to the advancement of knowledge