Philosophers' Imprint


Number of submissions received annually: 


2013: 431

2012: 494

2011: 373


Percentage of submissions accepted 

2013: 6%

2012: 6%

2011: 5%


Percentage of submissions that receive at least one referee report: 27% 


Average time for manuscript review in months: n/a


If possible, give details.

a. Editorial decision within 2 months: 73%

b. Editorial decision between 2 and 6 months: n/a

c. Editorial decision between 7 months and 1 year: 0%

d. Editorial decision of more than 1 year: 0%


The journal does not have a printed version. 


The journal has an 'online first' system. 

Average time from acceptance to online publication in months: 3 


Submissions are anonymous to the editors. 


Submissions are anonymous to the reviewers. 



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Percentage of submissions by women: n/a 


Percentage of accepted articles by women: n/a 


Percentage of submissions by people from minority ethnic groups: n/a 


Percentage of accepted articles by people from minority ethnic groups: n/a 


Publisher: MPublishing (University of Michigan) 

Editor(s)-in-chief: Stephen Darwall, J. David Velleman, Imogen Dickie, Nishi Shah 

Full name: J. David Velleman 

Title/position: Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics 

Email address: jdvelleman@nyu.edu 

Street address: 5 Washington Place 

City: New York 

State/province: New York 

Zip/postal code: 10003 

Country: USA 

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The Editors-in-chief of Philosopher’s Imprint have asked for the following note to be added to their responses to the survey:


We do not compute an average time for review across all manuscripts. We do compute an average time for review of manuscripts receiving comments. It is 3 months.