History Journal Response Times

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)

Diplomatic History
 * 3 months (acceptance with minor revisions, revisions accepted 6 days after being returned)

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)