Philosophy of Science

Overall acceptance rate

19.05%

Average response time

3.6 months

Average publicaton time

6.6 months

Average number of reviewers

2.2

Comment quality

Submissions with comments

96.19%

Overall experience with editors

Initial Verdicts

105

Acceptances

2 (1.90%)

Rejections

69 (65.71%)

Revise and resubmits

31 (29.52%)

Conditional acceptances

2 (1.90%)

Withdraws

1 (0.95%)

Revised/conditional verdicts

35

Acceptances

18 (51.43%)

Rejections

17 (48.57%)

Withdraws

0 (0.00%)

	Submitted	Verdict	Professional status	Response time	Comment quality	Experience with editors
Jan 26, 2025	Rejection	Graduate student	2 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Jan 26, 2025 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity Asian Response time 2 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 2 Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Mar 19, 2025	Acceptance	Non-tenure track faculty	3 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Mar 19, 2025 Submitted by - Verdict Acceptance Professional status Non-tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity Asian Response time 3 months Publication time 1 month Date of acceptance Nov 1, 2024 Number of reviewers 2 Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
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 -
Sep 10, 2025	Rejection	Non-tenure track faculty	2 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Sep 10, 2025 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Non-tenure track faculty Gender - Race/ethnicity - Response time 2 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Mar 9, 2026	Rejection	Tenure track faculty	6 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Mar 9, 2026 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Tenure track faculty Gender Male Race/ethnicity White Response time 6 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 3 Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter