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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

Cell and Tissue Biology

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Median, submission to acceptance44 dayshalf the papers were faster

Middle half of papers24–79days

Fastest 10% / slowest 10%14 / 117days or less / days or more

Acceptance to online86 daysmedian

Papers counted170Nov 2024 to Sep 2026

How long papers in this journal took to be accepted

Fastest 10% accepted within 14 daysMiddle half of the papers: 24–79 daysMedian: 44 daysSlowest 10% took over 117 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 33%

2 monthsabout 61%

3 monthsabout 79%

6 monthsover 90%

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%13 Nov 2026accepted by

Half of the papers13 Dec 2026accepted by

9 in 10 papers24 Feb 2027accepted by

Online (median)9 Mar 2027after acceptance + 86 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.

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Source, method and date. The received and accepted dates that the publisher deposits with each research article in Crossref, for 170 articles published Nov 2024 to Sep 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.