Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Aims & Scope

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is an interdisciplinary, international journal that serves as a forum to explore the intersections between phenomenology, empirical science, and analytic philosophy of mind.

The journal represents an attempt to build bridges between continental phenomenological approaches (in the tradition following Husserl) and disciplines that have not always been open to or aware of phenomenological contributions to understanding cognition and related topics.

The journal welcomes contributions by phenomenologists, scientists, and philosophers who study cognition, broadly defined to include issues that are open to both phenomenological and empirical investigation, including perception, emotion, language, and so forth.

In addition the journal welcomes discussions of methodological issues that involve the variety of approaches appropriate for addressing these problems.

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences also publishes critical review articles that address recent work in areas relevant to the connection between empirical results in experimental science and first-person perspective.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.9

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.972

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	59

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	5060

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	585

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Neuroscience, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Participatory sense-making

  Citation: 1048

  Authors: Hanne, Ezequiel

• Embodied simulation: From neurons to phenomenal experience

  Citation: 561

  Authors: Vittorio

• Enactive intersubjectivity: Participatory sense-making and mutual incorporation

  Citation: 487

  Authors: Thomas, Hanne

• Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency

  Citation: 487

  Authors: Ezequiel A.

• Describing one’s subjective experience in the second person: An interview method for the science of consciousness

  Citation: 454

  Authors: Claire

• Introspection and subliminal perception

  Citation: 402

  Authors: Thomas Zoëga, Morten

• Life after Kant: Natural purposes and the autopoietic foundations of biological individuality

  Citation: 368

  Authors: Andreas, Francisco J.

• Intelligence without representation – Merleau-Ponty's critique of mental representation The relevance of phenomenology to scientific explanation

  Citation: 360

  Authors: Hubert L.

• Minds: extended or scaffolded?

  Citation: 333

  Authors: Kim

• Temporality and psychopathology

  Citation: 230

  Authors: Thomas

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