Philosophy of Science

Overall acceptance rate

19.63%

Average response time

3.5 months

Average publicaton time

6.6 months

Average number of reviewers

2.3

Comment quality

Submissions with comments

96.26%

Overall experience with editors

Initial Verdicts

107

Acceptances

2 (1.87%)

Rejections

70 (65.42%)

Revise and resubmits

32 (29.91%)

Conditional acceptances

2 (1.87%)

Withdraws

1 (0.93%)

Revised/conditional verdicts

36

Acceptances

19 (52.78%)

Rejections

17 (47.22%)

Withdraws

0 (0.00%)

	Submitted	Verdict	Professional status	Response time	Comment quality	Experience with editors
Apr 11, 2025	Rejection	Tenured faculty	1.5 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Apr 11, 2025 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenured faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 1.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 2 Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
May 31, 2016	Conditional acceptance Acceptance	Tenured faculty	3.1 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted May 31, 2016 Submitted by - Verdict Conditional acceptance Acceptance Professional status Tenured faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 3.1 months Publication time 7 months Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Mar 22, 2023	Revise and resubmit Acceptance	Tenured faculty	8 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Mar 22, 2023 Submitted by - Verdict Revise and resubmit Acceptance Professional status Tenured faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity Hispanic/Latina/Latino White Response time 8 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 2 Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter
Apr 15, 2018	Rejection	Tenured faculty	5 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Apr 15, 2018 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenured faculty Gender - Race/ethnicity - Response time 5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Mar 7, 2018	Revise and resubmit Acceptance	Other	4 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Mar 7, 2018 Submitted by - Verdict Revise and resubmit Acceptance Professional status Other 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 -
Jan 2, 2018	Rejection	Other	1.9 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Jan 2, 2018 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Other Gender - Race/ethnicity - Response time 1.9 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Jul 17, 2014	Rejection	Other	3 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Jul 17, 2014 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Other Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 3 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -