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Submission timeline planner
Pubrica’s free submission timeline planner estimates the earliest realistic submission date from the current stage of your manuscript and the tasks still outstanding. It lists each stage in working days with a completion date and shows whether your planned submission date is achievable.
The tool runs in your browser. No registration, email address or file upload is required, and the formula, reference or assessment criteria used are shown with the result.
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- Nothing uploaded or stored
- No email asked for
- Method shown with the answer
- Sources dated
The Tool
Plan Your Manuscript Submission Timeline
Estimates the earliest realistic submission date from the current stage of your manuscript, with dated milestones in working days.
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Estimates the earliest realistic submission date from the current stage of your manuscript, with dated milestones in working days.
Working days · dated milestones44 wd
Working days across all stages
16 Dec 2026
Earliest submission from today
Starting today, the earliest realistic submission is 16 Dec 2026. Enter your target date to see whether it holds.
Method. The stage lengths are our own medians from completed projects, counted in working days and laid end to end from today, weekends excluded. They are deliberately sequential: the two things that most often break a submission date are co-authors reviewing in series rather than in parallel, and statistics started after the discussion has been written. Not included, because they are outside your control: ethics committee meeting cycles, which can add six weeks on their own, and the journal’s own time to first decision.
Limitations
What This Tool Does Not Cover
Use the result as a starting point. These are the situations in which it needs specialist review.
The estimators
Limitations of the estimators
The screening estimator counts reviewer hours, not elapsed time: it cannot know that your library does not hold forty of the full texts, or that an author will take three weeks to answer. The timeline planner leaves out ethics committee meeting cycles, which can add six weeks on their own. Both are deliberately built to be argued with — every rate in them is an editable field rather than a constant.
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