Fastest journals
The fastest peer-reviewed journals, and how to find one for your paper
Time to a first decision runs from days to months depending on the journal, and many journals do not publish it at all. The Journal Finder sorts the journals that fit your manuscript by the turnaround each one reports, and names where that figure came from. Science AI Journal is a research-tools service, not a journal you can submit to yet.
What "fastest" can mean
Journals report speed at different stages, and the stages are not interchangeable. A short time to first decision can mean quick desk rejections, so read it beside the journal's acceptance rate where one is reported; acceptance to publication measures production speed, not how fast the journal responds. These are the stages a journal's page here shows when the journal reports them:
- Submission to first decision
- Submission to post-review decision
- Submission to acceptance
- Submission to publication
- Acceptance to publication
Find a fast journal that fits your paper
The Journal Finder ranks journals for your title and abstract from an index of 17,500+ journals (15 credits a search). Sort the shortlist by "Fastest response first": each journal is ordered by the earliest stage it reports — submission to first decision, then submission to post-review decision, then submission to acceptance, then submission to publication — and its card names the stage it was sorted by. Tick "Responding time known" to hide journals that report nothing.
Each journal's own page on this site (/journals/…) shows every stage it reports, labelled with the source: publisher-reported, DOAJ self-reported, or estimated from our library — from the received and accepted dates of papers in our library, with the number of papers.
Skip the round-trip you did not need
A rejection that sends you back to the start is the slowest round of all. Before you submit, AI Review reads the full manuscript with 8 specialist agents in parallel — methodology, formulas, originality, literature, reproducibility, clarity, figures and prior publication — in under 15 minutes, for 30 credits. The prior-publication check queries 7 external sources plus our 4.5M-paper local library. For a quicker read, Pre-Check gives acceptance odds for top, mid and open/emerging journals from the title and abstract alone, for 15 credits.
Is Science AI Journal itself a fast journal?
Not today: it is not a journal you can submit to. The publication route is in preparation and we have not published any papers. What runs today are the research tools on this page, paid in credits with no subscription; a free account starts with 25 welcome credits.