The PGR was described by David L. Kirp in a 2003 "New York Times" op-ed as "the bible for prospective graduate students." George Yancy, in "Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge" (SUNY Press, 2012), opined that Philosophical Gourmet Report ranking: "is, of course, very controversial. However, as is often pointed out, there is no real alternative." Carlin Romano, in "America the Philosophical" (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013), referred to the PGR rankings as "often-criticized" and "biased towards mainstream analytic departments". This report has attracted criticism from different viewpoints. Notably, practitioners of continental philosophy, who perceive the Leiter report as unfair to their field, have compiled alternative rankings.