Journal of Political Philosophy

Overall acceptance rate

10.28%

Average response time

1.4 months

Average publicaton time

10.4 months

Average number of reviewers

1.9

Comment quality

Submissions with comments

43.93%

Overall experience with editors

Initial Verdicts

107

Acceptances

2 (1.87%)

Rejections

93 (86.92%)

Revise and resubmits

7 (6.54%)

Conditional acceptances

4 (3.74%)

Withdraws

1 (0.93%)

Revised/conditional verdicts

11

Acceptances

9 (81.82%)

Rejections

2 (18.18%)

Withdraws

0 (0.00%)

	Submitted	Verdict	Professional status	Response time	Comment quality	Experience with editors
Jan 12, 2023	Rejection	Graduate student	0 months	-
Journal Journal of Political Philosophy Submitted Jan 12, 2023 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 0 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Feb 21, 2023	Rejection	Graduate student	0.5 months	-
Journal Journal of Political Philosophy Submitted Feb 21, 2023 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Female Race/ethnicity White Response time 0.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter
Mar 6, 2023	Rejection	Graduate student	0.8 months	-	-
Journal Journal of Political Philosophy Submitted Mar 6, 2023 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 0.8 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors - Comments from submitter
Jul 31, 2023	Rejection	Tenure track faculty	0.1 months	-
Journal Journal of Political Philosophy Submitted Jul 31, 2023 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 0.1 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Oct 8, 2023	Rejection	Other	0.4 months	-
Journal Journal of Political Philosophy Submitted Oct 8, 2023 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Other Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 0.4 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Dec 5, 2023	Rejection	Non-tenure track faculty	2 months
Journal Journal of Political Philosophy Submitted Dec 5, 2023 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Non-tenure track faculty Gender Female Race/ethnicity White Response time 2 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 2 Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Jun 25, 2025	Rejection	Tenured faculty	0.1 months	-
Journal Journal of Political Philosophy Submitted Jun 25, 2025 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenured faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity Hispanic/Latina/Latino Other race/ethnicity Response time 0.1 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 1 Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -