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This is a wiki to discuss journal response times. Please enter details of how many weeks/months between submission, acknowledgment, decision (acceptance, R & R, rejection). If possible please also add the date (month/year); some journals change a lot over time, or with different editors in control.

American Historical Review

• 3 weeks (rejection); 10 weeks (rejection)

Australian Historical Studies

British Journal for the History of Science

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Contemporary British History

• 11 months (acceptance)
• 12+ months (withdrew article & published elsewhere)

East/West Connections

• 3 months (R&R)

English Historical Review

• 1 year (rejection); 9 months (acceptance); 11 months (rejection); 7 months and still waiting
• 15 months and still waiting (new referees found after 12 months) (11/2009)

Environmental History

• 2 months (rejection)

Gender and History

• 2 months (R&R)

History

• 1 month (acceptance)

Historical Journal

• 9 months (acceptance); 3 months (rejection)

Historical Research

• 2 months (rejection)

History Workshop Journal

• 7 months (rejection)
• 2 months (rejection) (6/2009)
• 1 month (acceptance)(6/2009)

International Journal of African Historical Studies

• 8 months and still waiting

Journal of African History

• 18 months (chose to withdraw without decision made)

Journal of American History

• 3 1/2 months (revise & resubmit); 4 months (acceptance)

Journal of British Studies

• 6 months (R&R), then 1 month after resubmit (acceptance); 3 months (acceptance)
• 2 months (rejection)

Journal of Canadian History

• 4 months (R&R), then 4 months after resubmit (acceptance)

Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

• 3 months (R&R); 8 months after resubmit, still waiting

Journal of Contemporary History

• 5 months (R&R) (9/2009)

Journal of Historical Biography

• 4 months (rejection) (10/2009)

Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences

• 4 months (revise and resubmit); resubmit accepted in under 24 hours, and online in <3 months

Journal of Medieval History

• Under 3 months (acceptance)

Journal of Modern History

• 7 months (acceptance)

Journal of Social History

• 3 1/2 months (rejection)
• 1 month (acceptance without revision)

Journal of Southern History

• 4 months (R&R) - then, two weeks after resubmit (acceptance - it doesn't appear to have gone back to the readers)

Journal of Urban History

Journal of Women's History

• 4 weeks (rejection)

Journal of World History

Law and History Review

• 4 1/2 months (revise and resubmit)

Medical History

• 3 months (rejection)
• 3 months (revise & resubmit); 1 month (revision accepted); predicted 12 months to paper publication.

Modern Asian Studies

Modernism/Modernity

• 3 months (desk rejection after initial email had said piece had 'entered the review process')

Notes and Queries

• 8 months (acceptance) (1/2009)

Pacific Historical Review

• 3 months (Revise and Resubmit)

Past and Present

• 7 months (R&R) then 3 months (acceptance); 7 months (R&R)

positions: east asia cultures critique

Speculum

• 15 months (still waiting)

Social History of Medicine

• 3 months (revise and resubmit); then 9 months to online publication [2009]

Twentieth Century British History

• 4 months (rejection)

War in History

• 1 month (R&R) then 3 months (acceptance) (11/2009)

Women's History Review

• 3 months (R&R); 6 weeks (Minor revisions) [2008-9]

William & Mary Quarterly

• 1 month (desk rejection)