Popularity scores

January 2026
Journal popularity score 851
Discipline popularity scores (quartiles)
Cognitive and experimental psychology 67(Q2)
Communication 56(Q1)
Languages 83(Q1)

Journal info (provided by editor)

Manuscripts received last year
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Articles published last year
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% accepted last year
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Immediately rejected last year
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Open access status
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Aims and scope

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Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
10.0 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
10.0 months
Decision time immediate rejection
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Overall rating manuscript handling
1.0 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

Average number of review rounds
1.0 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
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Average number of review reports
2.0 reports
Quality of review reports
3.0 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 43.4 weeks. Overall rating: 1 (bad). Outcome: Rejected.

Motivation:
After submission, my article was held for nearly three months before even being assigned to an associate editor. It was then held for another two months before being sent out for review. The reviewers' comments, once I finally received them, were reasonably insightful, but the processing time was simply far too long for me to consider submitting to this journal again. I would not recommend submitting to M&S, unless you are prepared for publication to take well over a year.