In light of the Synthese scandal, and the corresponding reputational hit the journal has taken, a couple of folks (PhD students and tenure-track faculty) have wondered whether publication in Synthese will have quite as much "CV value" as before. Time will tell, of course, but I think it is a reasonable bet that, while it will be easier to get published in Synthese due to the boycott (or its close cousins), it will, by the same token, not be worth quite as much as previously. Synthese was never at the level of the very top journals, like Philosophical Review or Nous, but as to its rough peer class--excellent journals like Philosophy of Science, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Erkenntnis, among others--it would probably now be prudent for younger scholars to aim for these other journals first, at least as things presently stand. Of course, given the editorial misconduct, I would urge scholars to send their work elsewhere until amends are made; but even those unmoved by the editorial misconduct have obvious reasons of professional self-interest to aim elsewhere for the time being.
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