British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Overall acceptance rate

21.30%

Average response time

2.5 months

Average publicaton time

11.2 months

Average number of reviewers

1.8

Comment quality

Submissions with comments

93.52%

Overall experience with editors

Initial Verdicts

108

Acceptances

4 (3.70%)

Rejections

71 (65.74%)

Revise and resubmits

29 (26.85%)

Conditional acceptances

4 (3.70%)

Withdraws

0 (0.00%)

Revised/conditional verdicts

Acceptances

19 (63.33%)

Rejections

11 (36.67%)

Withdraws

0 (0.00%)

	Submitted	Verdict	Professional status	Response time	Comment quality
Sep 21, 2020	Revise and resubmit Rejection	Non-tenure track faculty	3 months
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy Submitted Sep 21, 2020 Submitted by - Verdict Revise and resubmit Rejection Professional status Non-tenure track faculty Gender - Race/ethnicity - Response time 3 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 2 Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Feb 28, 2023	Rejection	Tenured faculty	4 months	-
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy Submitted Feb 28, 2023 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenured faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 4 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter If you are rejecting papers after four months with no comments, then you are not doing your job properly.
Mar 17, 2021	Rejection	Tenure track faculty	4 months	-
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy Submitted Mar 17, 2021 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenure track faculty Gender Female Race/ethnicity White Response time 4 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 2 Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter After four months of review, you told me that comments are not available. Go f**k yourself!
Mar 12, 2018	Rejection	Graduate student	0.7 months		-
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy Submitted Mar 12, 2018 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender - Race/ethnicity - Response time 0.7 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors - Comments from submitter -
Jun 7, 2016	Rejection	Graduate student	1 month	-	-
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy Submitted Jun 7, 2016 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 1 month Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors - Comments from submitter -
Aug 9, 2009	Rejection	Graduate student	1.5 months	-	-
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy Submitted Aug 9, 2009 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 1.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors - Comments from submitter -
Jun 16, 2016	Rejection	Graduate student	2.5 months		-
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy Submitted Jun 16, 2016 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Female Race/ethnicity White Response time 2.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors - Comments from submitter -
Mar 16, 2023	Rejection	Graduate student	0.1 months	-	-
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy Submitted Mar 16, 2023 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity Asian Response time 0.1 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors - Comments from submitter Desk Rejection