2013 Volume 55 Issue 12 Pages 874-881
The Japan Association for Philosophy of Science is an academic society in the field of philosophy of science in a broad sense, which includes philosophy of mathematics, psychology, and technology. The association was founded in 1954 by the leading scientists and philosophers in Japan, and it has been publishing an academic journal in Japanese since 1954 and an academic journal in European languages since 1956. In this study, we firstly analyze problems of publishing the academic journal of the association in European languages, and examine the aims and the difficulty of publishing academic journals in European languages in the fields of human and social sciences. Then, we introduce methods for improvements of the citation index and the acceptance rate of academic journals, and consider problems about evaluations of academic journals based on these numerical indices. At last, we discuss the multifariousness of the roles of academic journals and academic societies, and the importance of their collaborations.
