It’s a C-tier journal. (Impact factor 3.3, where 1 is trash and 5.5 is everyone in your subfield reads it)
It’s not an A-tier journal that everyone in the field cares about. It’s not even a B-tier journal that everyone in the sub-field cares about. It’s just a place random Joes with PhDs can go get their thoughts published. But it still has standards and still gets citations. In ethics as a field, AI is a niche that doesn’t really get a B-tier journal (not like medicine or law).
Plus, I was recommended to check out the work of one of the editors of the special issue on AI, and saw they had more AI papers than the best-cited ethics journals, so I decided it would be interesting to take a broad sample of this one journal.
I think there’s just one journal it would have been more appropriate for me to delve into, which is Ethics and Information Technology, which is even more on-brand than Science and Engineering Ethics and also slightly better-cited. But it’s not like they talk about superhuman AI much either—topic-wise they spend less time on wooly philosophical rambling and more time on algorithmic bias.
I’ll talk more about them in my next post that’s more of an attempt to go out and find interesting papers I didn’t know about before. One of the problems with a literature search is that a lot of interesting articles seem to have ended up in one-off collections (e.g. Douglas Summers-Stay’s article from a collection called Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence) or low-impact publications.
It’s a C-tier journal. (Impact factor 3.3, where 1 is trash and 5.5 is everyone in your subfield reads it)
It’s not an A-tier journal that everyone in the field cares about. It’s not even a B-tier journal that everyone in the sub-field cares about. It’s just a place random Joes with PhDs can go get their thoughts published. But it still has standards and still gets citations. In ethics as a field, AI is a niche that doesn’t really get a B-tier journal (not like medicine or law).
Plus, I was recommended to check out the work of one of the editors of the special issue on AI, and saw they had more AI papers than the best-cited ethics journals, so I decided it would be interesting to take a broad sample of this one journal.
I think there’s just one journal it would have been more appropriate for me to delve into, which is Ethics and Information Technology, which is even more on-brand than Science and Engineering Ethics and also slightly better-cited. But it’s not like they talk about superhuman AI much either—topic-wise they spend less time on wooly philosophical rambling and more time on algorithmic bias.
I’ll talk more about them in my next post that’s more of an attempt to go out and find interesting papers I didn’t know about before. One of the problems with a literature search is that a lot of interesting articles seem to have ended up in one-off collections (e.g. Douglas Summers-Stay’s article from a collection called Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence) or low-impact publications.