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
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
Jul 1, 2026	Revise and resubmit Acceptance	Graduate student	4.5 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Jul 1, 2026 Submitted by - Verdict Revise and resubmit Acceptance Professional status Graduate student Gender - Race/ethnicity - Response time 4.5 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers - Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -
Jul 11, 2026	Rejection	Graduate student	2 months
Journal Philosophy of Science Submitted Jul 11, 2026 Submitted by - Verdict Rejection Professional status Graduate student Gender Male Race/ethnicity - Response time 2 months Publication time - Date of acceptance - Number of reviewers 3 Comment quality Experience with editors Comments from submitter -