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How long will a journal take to accept your paper? Type its name for the full analysis: median days from submission to acceptance, the spread of its papers, your chances of acceptance within 1, 3 or 6 months, the dates if you submit today, its rank in its subject and faster journals in the same subjects.

Review time report

Tectonics

SCIEScopusJCR 2024Hybrid / subscriptionIF 3.14
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Median, submission to acceptance192 dayshalf the papers were faster
Middle half of papers139–250days
Fastest 10% / slowest 10%99 / 325days or less / days or more
Acceptance to online16 daysmedian
Papers counted184Aug 2025 to Oct 2026
How long papers in this journal took to be accepted
060120180240300360days from submission to acceptancemedian 19213925099325
Fastest 10% accepted within 99 daysMiddle half of the papers: 139–250 daysMedian: 192 daysSlowest 10% took over 325 days

Each paper took a different time. The green box holds the middle half of the papers and the dark line is the median; the whiskers reach the fastest 10% and the slowest 10%. Plan with the whole spread, not only the median.

How likely is acceptance within…

1 monthabout 3%
2 monthsabout 6%
3 monthsabout 9%
6 monthsabout 44%
1 yearover 90%

Share of the papers this journal published that were accepted within that time, read from the spread above. Papers that were rejected are not in the data.

If you submit today

Today30 Oct 2026Submission
Fastest 10%6 Feb 2027accepted by
Half of the papers10 May 2027accepted by
9 in 10 papers20 Sep 2027accepted by
Online (median)26 May 2027after acceptance + 16 days

Dates are the journal's past pattern applied to today, not a promise: your time depends on the editor, the reviewers and your revisions. A desk rejection usually comes much sooner.

Compared with its subject

Tectonics is faster than 24% of the 39 journals in Geochemistry & Geophysics that publish their review dates (rank 30, 1 = fastest).

060120180240300360Tectonics this journalmedian 192Geochemistry & Geophysics medians of 39 journalsmedian 158days from submission to acceptance

For the journal: the spread of its papers. For each subject: the spread of its journals' median review times.

Faster journals in the same subjects

Journals in the same subjects with a shorter median review time (at least 20 papers counted):

JournalMedian daysSpreadIndexed inAccess
Seismic Instruments43ESCI, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscriptionCompare
Geomagnetism and Aeronomy57SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscriptionCompare
Petrology58SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscriptionCompare
Journal of Volcanology and Seismology83SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscriptionCompare
Izvestiya Physics of the Solid Earth84SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscriptionCompare
Geochemistry International95SCIE, Scopus, JCR 2024Hybrid / subscriptionCompare

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Source, method and date. The received and accepted dates that the publisher deposits with each research article in Crossref, for 184 articles published Aug 2025 to Oct 2026. Days from received to accepted, then the median and the spread. Updated 29 October 2026. Impact factor: 2-year citedness from OpenAlex open data, not the official Clarivate value. ScholarsColab is not affiliated with this journal; check the journal's website for its own figures.

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Frequently asked questions

How is the review time of a journal measured?

Publishers deposit a received date and an accepted date with many research articles in Crossref, the scholarly publication registry. The checker counts the days between them for every article of the last 24 months and shows the median and the spread. Papers that were rejected are not in the data.

What is a normal review time?

Across 6,745 journals with data, the median time from submission to acceptance is 150 days. It ranges from a few weeks to many months by field and journal, and it includes every revision round.

Why is my journal not in the checker?

Only journals whose publisher deposits both dates can be measured. Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, BMC and Hindawi mostly do; Elsevier, IEEE, MDPI, Frontiers and SAGE mostly do not.

How likely is my paper to be accepted within 3 months?

Check the journal: the report reads the share of its papers accepted within 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12 months from the spread of its review times, and gives the dates if you submit today.

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