Metaphysica

Overall acceptance rate
54.17%
Average response time
2.9 months
Average publicaton time
3.8 months
Average number of reviewers
1.5
Comment quality
Submissions with comments
33.33%
Overall experience with editors
Initial Verdicts
24
Acceptances
11 (45.83%)
Rejections
9 (37.50%)
Revise and resubmits
2 (8.33%)
Conditional acceptances
1 (4.17%)
Withdraws
1 (4.17%)
Revised/conditional verdicts
2
Acceptances
2 (100.00%)
Rejections
0 (0.00%)
Withdraws
0 (0.00%)
Submitted Verdict Professional status Response time Comment quality Experience with editors
Apr 16, 2026
Rejection
Independent scholar
9.5 months
Journal
Submitted
Apr 16, 2026
Submitted by
Verdict
Rejection
Professional status
Independent scholar
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
Other race/ethnicity
Response time
9.5 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
2
Comment quality
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
May 15, 2025
Acceptance
Tenured faculty
3 months
-
Journal
Submitted
May 15, 2025
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Tenured faculty
Gender
Female
Race/ethnicity
White
Response time
3 months
Publication time
2 months
Date of acceptance
Sep 21, 2021
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Feb 4, 2025
Rejection
Tenure track faculty
3 months
Journal
Submitted
Feb 4, 2025
Submitted by
Verdict
Rejection
Professional status
Tenure track faculty
Gender
Female
Race/ethnicity
Asian
Response time
3 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
2
Comment quality
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Jan 5, 2024
Revise and resubmit  Acceptance
Graduate student
4 months
Journal
Submitted
Jan 5, 2024
Submitted by
Verdict
Revise and resubmit  Acceptance
Professional status
Graduate student
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
Hispanic/Latina/Latino
Response time
4 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
2
Comment quality
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
Dec 17, 2023
Rejection
Tenure track faculty
1 month
Journal
Submitted
Dec 17, 2023
Submitted by
Verdict
Rejection
Professional status
Tenure track faculty
Gender
-
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
1 month
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
1
Comment quality
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Dec 17, 2023
Rejection
Tenure track faculty
2 months
Journal
Submitted
Dec 17, 2023
Submitted by
Verdict
Rejection
Professional status
Tenure track faculty
Gender
-
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
2 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
1
Comment quality
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Jul 18, 2023
Rejection
Tenured faculty
6.7 months
-
Journal
Submitted
Jul 18, 2023
Submitted by
Verdict
Rejection
Professional status
Tenured faculty
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
Other race/ethnicity
Response time
6.7 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Apr 13, 2023
Acceptance
Non-tenure track faculty
7 months
-
Journal
Submitted
Apr 13, 2023
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Non-tenure track faculty
Gender
Prefer not to answer
Race/ethnicity
White
Response time
7 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Jan 4, 2020
Revise and resubmit  Acceptance
Graduate student
3 months
-
Journal
Submitted
Jan 4, 2020
Submitted by
Verdict
Revise and resubmit  Acceptance
Professional status
Graduate student
Gender
-
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
3 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
1
Comment quality
Experience with editors
-
Comments from submitter
-
Mar 31, 2018
Withdraw
Non-tenure track faculty
9 months
-
Journal
Submitted
Mar 31, 2018
Submitted by
Verdict
Withdraw
Professional status
Non-tenure track faculty
Gender
Female
Race/ethnicity
White
Response time
9 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Dec 10, 2017
Conditional acceptance  
Non-tenure track faculty
1 month
Journal
Submitted
Dec 10, 2017
Submitted by
Verdict
Conditional acceptance  
Professional status
Non-tenure track faculty
Gender
-
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
1 month
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Feb 3, 2016
Acceptance
Tenure track faculty
3 months
-
Journal
Submitted
Feb 3, 2016
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Tenure track faculty
Gender
Female
Race/ethnicity
White
Response time
3 months
Publication time
2 months
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Jul 10, 2015
Acceptance
Tenured faculty
1.5 months
-
Journal
Submitted
Jul 10, 2015
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Tenured faculty
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
White
Response time
1.5 months
Publication time
1 month
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Dec 22, 2014
Acceptance
Non-tenure track faculty
1 month
-
Journal
Submitted
Dec 22, 2014
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Non-tenure track faculty
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
-
Sep 15, 2014
Rejection
Non-tenure track faculty
0.5 months
-
Journal
Submitted
Sep 15, 2014
Submitted by
Verdict
Rejection
Professional status
Non-tenure track faculty
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
0.5 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Sep 2, 2014
Acceptance
Graduate student
2 months
-
Journal
Submitted
Sep 2, 2014
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Graduate student
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
2 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
May 19, 2014
Rejection
Graduate student
1 month
-
Journal
Submitted
May 19, 2014
Submitted by
Verdict
Rejection
Professional status
Graduate student
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
1 month
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Apr 7, 2014
Rejection
Graduate student
0.5 months
-
-
Journal
Submitted
Apr 7, 2014
Submitted by
Verdict
Rejection
Professional status
Graduate student
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
0.5 months
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
-
Comments from submitter
-
Jan 14, 2014
Acceptance
Tenure track faculty
1 month
-
Journal
Submitted
Jan 14, 2014
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Tenure track faculty
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 19, 2013
Acceptance
Tenured faculty
3 months
Journal
Submitted
Aug 19, 2013
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Tenured faculty
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
Jewish
Response time
3 months
Publication time
12 months
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Aug 16, 2011
Acceptance
Graduate student
2 months
-
Journal
Submitted
Aug 16, 2011
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Graduate student
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
2 months
Publication time
4 months
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Apr 23, 2010
Acceptance
Graduate student
1 month
-
Journal
Submitted
Apr 23, 2010
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Graduate student
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
1 month
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Nov 17, 2009
Rejection
Graduate student
1 month
-
Journal
Submitted
Nov 17, 2009
Submitted by
Verdict
Rejection
Professional status
Graduate student
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
1 month
Publication time
-
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-
Oct 19, 2009
Acceptance
Graduate student
2 months
-
Journal
Submitted
Oct 19, 2009
Submitted by
Verdict
Acceptance
Professional status
Graduate student
Gender
Male
Race/ethnicity
-
Response time
2 months
Publication time
2 months
Date of acceptance
-
Number of reviewers
-
Comment quality
-
Experience with editors
Comments from submitter
-