Review timing
Journal review timelines and manuscript-status guides
Use these guides to understand review-time ranges, first-decision timing, and editorial status phrases before deciding whether to wait, revise, or prepare a backup route.
Review-time guides
Review time and first-decision guides
These pages explain expected review timing and what timing signals mean for authors.
- ACM Computing Surveys Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Review Time: Review and Revision Planning
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Review Time: Time to First Decision and Publication
- ACS Applied Nano Materials Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- ACS Catalysis Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- ACS Nano Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- ACS Omega Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- Acta Materialia Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Advanced Energy Materials Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Advanced Functional Materials Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- Advanced Materials Review Time 2026: Time to First Decision and Publication
- Advanced Science Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Ageing Research Reviews Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- American Journal of Human Genetics Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Analytical Chemistry Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Angewandte Chemie Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Annals of Oncology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Applied Catalysis A General Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- Applied Catalysis B Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Applied Energy Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Applied Physics Letters Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Applied Sciences Basel Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Applied Surface Science Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Applied Thermal Engineering Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Astronomy & Astrophysics Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Astrophysical Journal Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Average Review Times Across 100 Journals in 2026: What the Tracked Data Shows
- Bioinformatics Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Biological Conservation Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Biomaterials Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- Bioresource Technology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Blood Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- BMC Medicine Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- BMC Medicine Time to First Decision: 8-14 Weeks Median
- BMJ Open Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- BMJ Open Time to First Decision: 8-16 Weeks From Submission
- BMJ Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- Brain Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Building and Environment Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Cancer Research Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Carbohydrate Polymers Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Cell Host Microbe Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Cell Metabolism Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Cell Reports Review Time: What to Expect Before and After Peer Review
- Cell Stem Cell Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Ceramics International Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Chemical Communications Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Chemical Engineering Journal Review Time: How Long Does It Take?
- Chemical Engineering Science Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- Chemical Reviews Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Chemical Society Reviews Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Chemistry of Materials Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Circulation Research Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Circulation Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- Clinical Cancer Research Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Clinical Infectious Diseases Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Construction and Building Materials Review Time: What to Expect
- Current Biology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Developmental Cell Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Diabetes Care Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Ecological Indicators Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- eLife Review Time: What to Expect Under the New Model
- EMBO Journal Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Endoscopy Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Energy Conversion and Management Review Time: Decision Timing and Revision Planning
- Environment International Review Time: First Decision and Peer Review Planning
- Environmental Research Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- Environmental Science & Technology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- European Heart Journal Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Expert Systems with Applications Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- Food Chemistry Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Frontiers in Immunology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Frontiers in Microbiology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Frontiers in Plant Science Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Fuel Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Gastroenterology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Genes & Development Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Genome Biology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Genome Research Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Gut Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Hepatology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- IEEE Access Review Time: Time to First Decision and Publication
- IEEE TPAMI Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Immunity Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences Review Time 2026: Time to First Decision and Publication
- International Journal of Oral Science Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- International Journal of Production Research Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- JACC Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- JACS Review Time 2026: Time to First Decision and Full Timeline
- JAMA Cardiology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- JAMA Oncology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- JAMA Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- JCI Insight Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- JCI Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Alloys and Compounds Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Applied Physics Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Biological Chemistry Review Time: What to Expect
- Journal of Cell Biology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Chemical Physics Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Cleaner Production Review Time: Time to First Decision and Publication
- Journal of Clinical Oncology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Economic Theory Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Journal of Energy Storage Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- Journal of Environmental Management Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Journal of Experimental Medicine Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Hazardous Materials Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Hydrology Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Journal of Immunology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Journal of Management Studies Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Journal of Medical Internet Research Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- Journal of Membrane Science Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Journal of Physical Chemistry C Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Journal of Power Sources Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Kidney International Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Lancet Infectious Diseases Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Lancet Neurology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Lancet Oncology Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- Lancet Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- Materials Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Microbiome Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Microchemical Journal Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- MNRAS Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Molecular Cell Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Molecular Systems Biology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Molecular Therapy Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Molecules Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nano Letters Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Biotechnology Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- Nature Cell Biology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Chemical Biology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Communications Review Time: What to Expect at Every Stage
- Nature Communications Review Timeline: Desk Decision to Final Decision
- Nature Genetics Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Immunology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Medicine Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- Nature Metabolism Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Methods Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Microbiology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Protocols Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Reviews Cancer Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nature Structural Molecular Biology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- NEJM Review Time: What to Expect From Submission to Decision
- Neuron Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Nucleic Acids Research Review Time 2026: How Long to First Decision?
- Nutrients Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Physical Review B Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Physical Review D Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- PLOS Medicine Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- PLOS ONE Review Time: What to Expect in 2026
- PNAS Nexus Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Polymers Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Remote Sensing Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Research Policy Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Resources Conservation and Recycling Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- RNA Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Science Advances First Decision Time: What to Expect in 2026
- Science Advances Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Science Immunology Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Science Journal Review Time 2026: Time to First Decision and Full Timeline
- Science of The Total Environment Review Time 2026: Time to First Decision and Publication
- Science of the Total Environment Time to First Decision
- Science Translational Medicine Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Small Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Soil Biology and Biochemistry Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Sustainability Review Time 2026: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Tourism Management Review Time: Decision and Revision Planning
- Trends in Molecular Medicine Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
- Waste Management Review Time: First Decision and Revision Planning
- Water Research Review Time: What Authors Can Actually Expect
Manuscript status
Under review, under consideration, and with-editor guides
These pages explain status phrases without turning them into overconfident predictions.
- Academy of Management Annals Under Review: What the Status Means
- Academy of Management Discoveries Under Review: What the Status Means
- Academy of Management Perspectives Under Review: What the Status Means
- Academy of Management Review 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- ACM Transactions on Graphics 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- ACS Applied Energy Materials Under Review: What the Status Means
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- ACS Catalysis 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- ACS Nano 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Acta Biomaterialia Under Review: What the Status Means
- Acta Materialia 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Advanced Energy Materials 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Advanced Functional Materials 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Advanced Materials 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Ageing Research Reviews 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Aging Cell 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Allergy 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- American Economic Review 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- American Journal of Human Genetics 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- American Journal of Psychiatry Under Review: What the Status Means
- Analytic Methods in Accident Research Under Review: What the Status Means
- Analytical Chemistry 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Angewandte Chemie 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Angewandte Chemie 'With Editor': What the Wiley-VCH Screen Means
- Annals of Internal Medicine 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Annals of Oncology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Annual Review of Biochemistry Under Review: What the Status Means
- Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Under Review: What the Status Means
- Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences Under Review: What the Status Means
- Annual Review of Food Science and Technology Under Review: What the Status Means
- Annual Review of Psychology Under Review: What the Status Means
- Applied Catalysis B 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Applied Energy 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Applied Physics Letters 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Applied Sciences (Basel) 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Applied Surface Science 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Applied Thermal Engineering 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering Under Review
- Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Astronomy & Astrophysics 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Bioinformatics (OUP) 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Biological Conservation Under Review: What the Status Means
- Biomaterials 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Bioresource Technology Under Review: Timeline
- Biosensors and Bioelectronics Under Review: What the Status Means
- Biotechnology Advances Under Review: What the Status Means
- Blood (ASH) 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- BMC Medicine 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- BMJ 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Brain (OUP) 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Cancer Cell 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and Realistic Timelines
- Cancer Research 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Carbohydrate Polymers 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Carbon Neutrality 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Carbon Under Review: What the Status Means
- Cell 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Cell Discovery 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Cell Host & Microbe 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Cell Host and Microbe Under Review: What the Status Means
- Cell Metabolism 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Cell Reports 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Cell Stem Cell 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Cell Systems 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Ceramics International 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Chem Under Review: What the Status Means
- Chemical Communications 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Chemical Engineering Journal 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Chemical Reviews 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Chemical Science Under Review: What the Status Means
- Chemical Society Reviews 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Chemistry of Materials Under Review: What the Status Means
- Circulation Research 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Clinical Cancer Research 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Clinical Infectious Diseases 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Clinical Psychology Review 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Communications of the ACM Under Review: What the Status Means
- Composite Structures Under Review: What the Status Means
- Composites Science and Technology Under Review: What the Status Means
- Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Under Review
- Computer Science Review 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Computers & Education 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Conservation Biology Under Review: What the Status Means
- Conservation Letters Under Review: What the Status Means
- Construction and Building Materials 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Critical Care Under Review: What the Status Means
- Current Biology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Developmental Cell Under Review: What the Status Means
- Diabetes (ADA) 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Diabetes Care (ADA) 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Diabetologia 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Diversity and Distributions Under Review: What the Status Means
- Earth-Science Reviews Under Review: What the Status Means
- Ecography Under Review: What the Status Means
- Ecological Applications Under Review: What the Status Means
- Ecological Monographs Under Review: What the Status Means
- Ecology Letters Under Review: What the Status Means
- Ecology Under Review: What the Status Means
- Econometrica 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- eLife 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Endoscopy 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Energy & Environmental Science 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Energy Economics 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Energy Policy 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Energy Storage Materials Under Review: What the Status Means
- Energy Under Review: What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Engineering Structures 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Environment International Under Review: What the Status Means
- Environmental Health Perspectives Under Review: What the Status Means
- Environmental Pollution Under Review: What the Status Means
- Environmental Research 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Environmental Science & Technology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Environmental Science & Technology Letters Under Review: What the Status Means
- European Heart Journal 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- European Respiratory Journal 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Experimental & Molecular Medicine 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Expert Systems with Applications 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- FEMS Microbiology Reviews Under Review: What the Status Means
- Food Chemistry 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Food Hydrocolloids 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Frontiers in Immunology 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Frontiers in Microbiology 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Frontiers in Plant Science 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Fuel 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Gastroenterology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Genes & Development 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Genome Biology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Genome Research 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Geophysical Research Letters 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Global Change Biology 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Global Ecology and Biogeography Under Review: What the Status Means
- Green Chemistry Under Review: What the Status Means
- Gut (BMJ) 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Heliyon 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Hepatology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- IEEE Access 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- IEEE TPAMI 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 'Under Review': Status Meanings
- IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Immunity (Cell Press) 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Information Systems Research 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Inorganic Chemistry Under Review: What the Status Means
- International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- International Journal of Computer Vision Under Review: What the Status Means
- International Journal of Fatigue Under Review: What the Status Means
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- International Journal of Information Management Under Review: What the Status Means
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- International Journal of Production Economics Under Review: What the Status Means
- International Journal of Production Research 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- JACC Under Review: What the Status Means
- JACS 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- JACS 'With Editor': What the Associate-Editor Screen Means
- JAMA 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- JAMA 'With Editor': What the Tiered Editorial Screen Means
- JAMA Cardiology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- JAMA Internal Medicine 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- JAMA Network Open 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- JAMA Oncology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- JCI Insight 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- JHM Under Review: Status Timeline
- Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 'Under Review': Status Meanings
- Journal of Alloys and Compounds Under Review: What the Status Means
- Journal of Applied Physics Under Review: What the Status Means
- Journal of Biological Chemistry 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Journal of Cell Biology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Journal of Cleaner Production 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Journal of Clinical Investigation 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Journal of Clinical Oncology Under Review: What the Status Means
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Under Review: What Each Status Means
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A Under Review: What Each Status Means
- Journal of Neuroscience Under Review: What the Status Means
- Journal of Physical Chemistry C 'Under Review': Status Meanings
- Journal of Power Sources Under Review: What the Status Means
- Lancet Neurology Under Review: What the Status Means
- Management Science 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Materials Under Review: What the Status Means
- Molecular Cell 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Molecular Psychiatry Under Review: What the Status Means
- Molecular Systems Biology Under Review: What the Status Means
- Molecules 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Nano Letters 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Nature 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Nature 'With Editor': What the Handling-Editor Screen Means
- Nature Biotechnology 'Under Consideration': What Each Status Means and Realistic Timelines
- Nature Cell Biology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Nature Chemical Biology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Nature Communications 'Under Consideration': What It Means and How Long It Takes
- Nature Communications 'With Editor': The Desk-Screen Stage Explained
- Nature Human Behaviour Under Consideration: What the Status Means
- Nature Immunology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Nature Materials 'Under Consideration': What the Status Means
- Nature Medicine 'Under Consideration': What Each Status Means and Realistic Timelines
- Nature Metabolism 'Under Consideration': What the Status Means
- Nature Methods 'Under Consideration': What Each Status Means and Realistic Timelines
- Nature Methods 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Nature Nanotechnology Under Consideration: What the Status Means
- Nature Neuroscience 'Under Consideration': Status Meanings and Timeline
- Nature Neuroscience 'With Editor': What the Handling-Editor Screen Means
- Nature Photonics 'Under Consideration': What the Status Means
- Nature Protocols 'Under Consideration': What the Status Means
- Nature Reviews Cancer 'Under Consideration': What the Status Means
- Nature Reviews Immunology Under Consideration: What the Status Means
- Nature Reviews Microbiology Under Consideration: What the Status Means
- Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 'Under Consideration': What the Status Means
- Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 'Under Consideration': What the Status Means
- Nature Sustainability Under Consideration: What the Status Means
- NEJM Evidence 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Neuron (Cell Press) 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- New England Journal of Medicine Under Review: What the Status Means
- Nucleic Acids Research 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Nutrients Under Review: What the Status Means
- Physical Review B 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Physical Review D 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Physical Review Letters 'With Editor': What the Editorial Screen Means
- Physics Reports Under Review: What the Status Means
- Physiological Reviews Under Review: What the Status Means
- Phytomedicine 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- PLOS Biology Under Review: What the Status Means
- PLOS Medicine 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- PLOS ONE 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- PNAS 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- PNAS 'With Editor': What the Editorial-Board-Member Screen Means
- PNAS Nexus 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Polymer Degradation and Stability Under Review: What the Status Means
- PRL Status Check: What Physical Review Letters Under Review Means
- Progress in Polymer Science Under Review: What the Status Means
- Remote Sensing 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Under Review: What the Status Means
- Reviews of Modern Physics Under Review: What the Status Means
- RNA Under Review: What the Status Means
- RSC Advances 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Science 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Science Advances 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Science Advances 'With Editor': The BoRE Desk-Screen Stage Explained
- Science Advances Under Evaluation: What the Status Usually Means
- Science Immunology Under Review: What the Status Means
- Science of the Total Environment 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Science Translational Medicine 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Scientific Reports 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Scientific Reports 'With Editor': What the Editorial Screen Means
- Sensors 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- Small (Wiley) 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- Sustainability 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- The Astrophysical Journal 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- The EMBO Journal 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- The Lancet 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases 'Under Review': What the Status Means
- The Lancet Oncology 'Under Review': What Each Status Means
- Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies Under Review: What the Status Means
- Transportation Science Under Review: What the Status Means
- Trends in Biochemical Sciences Under Review: What the Status Means
- Trends in Molecular Medicine Under Review: What the Status Means
- Waste Management Under Review: What the Status Means
- Water Research 'Under Review': What Each Status Means and When to Expect a Decision
Related publishing collections
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These collection links connect submission, selection, review-time, rejection-risk, and manuscript-preparation pages without relying on the interactive blog index.
- Journal submission guidesBroad journal-specific submission readiness and upload guidance.
- Pre-submission review guidesReadiness, novelty, scope-fit, and manuscript-review decisions.
- Journal selection guidesChoosing a realistic target journal before submission.
- Desk rejection guidesEditor-screen and early rejection risk by journal or field.
- Journal review time guidesFirst-decision timing, review duration, and delay risks.
- Journal status guidesUnder review, with editor, under consideration, and related statuses.
- Journal policy and metricsAI policies, formatting, APCs, acceptance rates, and journal metrics.
- Comparison guidesService, tool, and journal-vs-journal decision pages.
- Manuscript preparation guidesCover letters, abstracts, highlights, figures, and submission packages.