Philosophical Review

Overall acceptance rate

3.11%

Average response time

4.1 months

Average publicaton time

7.5 months

Average number of reviewers

1.4

Comment quality

Submissions with comments

42.02%

Overall experience with editors

Initial Verdicts

257

Acceptances

2 (0.78%)

Rejections

230 (89.49%)

Revise and resubmits

24 (9.34%)

Conditional acceptances

0 (0.00%)

Withdraws

1 (0.39%)

Revised/conditional verdicts

19

Acceptances

6 (31.58%)

Rejections

13 (68.42%)

Withdraws

0 (0.00%)

	Submitted	Verdict	Professional status	Response time	Comment quality	Experience with editors
Jun 20, 2012	Rejection	Non-tenure track faculty	2 months	-
Journal Philosophical Review Submitted Jun 20, 2012 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Non-tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 2 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Aug 8, 2009	Rejection	Non-tenure track faculty	8 months	-
Journal Philosophical Review Submitted Aug 8, 2009 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Non-tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 8 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Nov 16, 2015	Rejection	Graduate student	1 month	-
Journal Philosophical Review Submitted Nov 16, 2015 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 -
Jan 24, 2010	Rejection	Tenure track faculty	3.5 months	-
Journal Philosophical Review Submitted Jan 24, 2010 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 3.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Sep 22, 2025	Rejection	Non-tenure track faculty	1 month	-
Journal Philosophical Review Submitted Sep 22, 2025 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection 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 -
Apr 18, 2011	Rejection	Graduate student	3 months	-
Journal Philosophical Review Submitted Apr 18, 2011 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 3 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Jun 7, 2015	Rejection	Other	1 month	-
Journal Philosophical Review Submitted Jun 7, 2015 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Other Gender - Race/ethnicity - Response time 1 month Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality - Experience with editors Comments from submitter -