If you want to publish a review article, you should write to the editor of the journal in question, together with a detailed plan. But be aware that if you are not known to the editorial board, you will have a chance very close to 0, unless you have a much more senior colleague who could recommend you. And even that might not help.

My question to you is this: WHY, WHY are you in a hurry? A review article needs to be assessed, just as any other contribution, and I would say that if you are not known the assessment will be more detailed, just because you are a junior scientist.

Again - to be in a hurry is NEVER a good start.

If you want to publish a review article, you should write to the editor of the journal in question, together with a detailed plan. But be aware that if you are not known to the editorial board, you will have a chance very close to 0, unless you have a much more senior colleague who could recommend you. And even that might not help.

My question to you is this: WHY, WHY are you in a hurry? A review article needs to be assessed, just as any other contribution, and I would say that if you are not known the assessment will be more detailed, just because you are a junior scientist.

Again - to be in a hurry is NEVER a good start.

Thank you for your valuable comment. Thanks @Dr.Michael Patriksson for your contribution.

Agree with Michael. There is no 'magic', quick formulae (possibly with the exception of 'predatory' journals which are happy to take your money, publish quickly and where your work will have no value and be seen by no-one). If you find yourself in a situation whereby you 'have to' publish very quickly i.e. university contractual issues - you have to ask 'have you not planned well and left it too late' and/or 'you should question the validity of the task imposed'.

If there was such a thing as a 'legitimate' journal that published (including the review process) then 'everyone' would be submitting to it - and then that time process would soon be doubled, tripled etc.

Hard work, patience and perseverance is how most people, in today's very competitive publishing environment, eventually get published.

Check in MDPI https://www.mdpi.com/about/apc

You can choose to have your review as an >>open review

there is journal named: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

open access, high quality and rapid publication

https://jin.imrpress.org

Writing a review article should be a state-of-the-art if you want to publish in good journal. But, it's not possible to publish an article just within one or two month in a good journal. Of course, there are some journals in which you can publish your article within a month. But these journals are predatory, fake and they will publish article without any review, just for money. Don't be in a hurry. Publishing within one month will not help you at all.

Respected professors and scholars,

Thank you for your contribution

@Dean Whitehead@Boris L. Almonacid@Shadow Shadow@Sohel Rana

Free - Reputed Journal - Quick Turnaround

This is an impossible trio. Think of it as the three corners of a triangle.

Side A = Free and Reputed - Possible (Many journals without submission fee)

Side B = Free and Quick - Possible (many journals have quick turnaround policy)

Side C = Reputed and Quick - Possible (There are quiet a few I know in Economics/Finance)

But you can't have it all together. It just doesn't go well together.

And if you want genuine journal suggestions for your manuscript, you must give more details about your work (subject area, research topic, methodological rigour, nature of write-up etc).

Please don't forget to recommend the answer if you found it useful.

Thank you for your contribution @George Varghese

Dear Sathish Kumar ,

As far as my knowledge is concerned, no free journal is available to publish your review article in 1 or 2 months. Any Journal may take minimum of two to three months atleast to publish online that becomes the fastest publication. However, if you are asking for paid trustworthy journals you can select Journals of scopus indexed with UGC recognized which takes hardly less time may be within a month also to publish online.

With regards,

Thank you professor for your valuable comment @Pisipaty Srinivas Kishore

The answer to this question is probably expected by many scientists and researchers who would like to quickly publish the results of their research. Not all journals of this type are widely recognized as reputable, not all are characterized by high recognition in specific science disciplines, not all journals of this type publish their scientific works for free on various online platforms and scientific knowledge bases and do not charge any other fees. The formula of open access to knowledge should enable this. However, some scientific journals meet these issues.

Below are examples of such magazines. You can publish for free in these magazines. Articles published in these journals are entered in many indexing databases of scientific journals. These magazines are published electronically in PDF and also in printed version. Below are the websites of three scientific journals that meet these criteria:

- "International Journal of Innovation in Social Sciences and Engineering" (ISSN 2543-7089): Social sciences, various humanities and exact sciences, also taking into account social, sociological, economic and other aspects: https://ijoness.com https://instytutinnowacji.edu.pl/o-ijoness/

- "International Journal of Legal Studies" (ISSN 2543-7097): Legal sciences, normative aspects of various issues, various issues described in normative terms: https://ijols.com https://instytutinnowacji.edu.pl/ijols-prawo-2/

- "International Journal of Innovation in Social Sciences and Engineering" (ISSN 2543-7089): Humanities and exact sciences, various fields of science, various types of issues including new technologies, various fields of innovation applications, determinants of innovation development, etc.

Regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

This Link Maybe Useful:

https://doaj.org/

Being in a hurry is NEVER a good idea.

Michael Patriksson Its probably wise to hurry if you are on a railroad track and a train is coming.

Well, in that case you have the option to stand still, and face grim consequences.

But in terms of publishing, I do not compute how "scholars" can take whatever opportunity to shell out their (mostly) trash. Their lukewarm stuff will be forgotten tomorrow. What then is the gain? Are some institutions so lax in their assessment of the publishing from their schools that they only count the number of papers, and the heck with assessing whether they actually expand our knowledge? Is that the goal - "I have more published papers than you"? Well, what we see at RG is exactly that.

The principle of academic publishing must always be: (a) Make sure that the question/issue in the paper is of major interest - motivate the paper well. (That immediately rules out most of the metaheuristic-based papers, as they almost never qualify in, at least, the item related to numerical experiments against competitors.) (b) Make sure that the history of the topic is well described, such that we can follow the major advancements, until your paper was written. (c) Make sure to mention what is the major achievement - and what could be the effect of it. (d) And don't gloss over details - be meticulous.

https://www.mdpi.com/

Well, if your review is well prepared it can be accepted in 2 months. One round of reviewers xomments/minor revision/acceptance.

Most of Elsevier journals are free for publishing and quick enough.

Regards

GB

If I were an editor I would definitely screen that review manuscript more meticulously than a standard paper - since very good reviews do not grow on trees. They can be very well written, if the author is very, very good, and has a good track record. But like I said, since a review is meant to have a wider scope than a literature review in a standard technical paper, it means that reviewers of such a review text also NEED THE TIME to assess the manuscript well. Hence: 2 Months is a JOKE: the evaluators of the manuscript have other stuff to do as well, and you have to expect two rounds of refereeing, in order to make sure that some threads are followed to the end of the line of papers. Good reviews take time to produce and review, but it's worth it.

I have that experience exactly. I learnt quite fast how to write a review paper, and a few have become cited rather a lot. This is not an easy game at all!

All most journal of web of science are free

Dear Sathish Kumar, I fully agree with Michael Patriksson. Why the hell do you want to publish a REVIEW ARTICLE in 1-2 months?? This question would only be of some importance if you had written a COMMUNICATION which would require urgent publication, but a Review Article? If you are really in a hurry, I suggest to send your manuscript to any of the countless predatory journals, pay a publication fee and have it published in 2 days!

:-) Good job, Frank! I also get worked up when ignorant people asks for favours, to avoid working. I haven't really said it before, but I am a scholar since 1988 - that's when my first paper was done and submitted - and I fail to see how young "scientists" (not worthy the title at all) think that publishing should be as easy as ordering coffee at Starbucks! The scientific world is filled with unworthy people - in the land of motorbiking they are called hangers-on, I think, and that's what they are as "scientists". They are clearly unwilling to work hard, unfortunately - like the cuckoo that lays eggs in others' nests, in order to not have to work.

Shame on them.

Dear Sathish Kumar

I recommend the answer of Frank T. Edelmann . I proposed that there is no respected journal can published a review article in this period.

All the best

Michael Patriksson

More seriously when I write a report or an article I usually have a deadline. I alway try to submit a first draft to as many people who are willing to review at least a week or two before the deadline. But this is not always possible because scope an focus can be change without notice as clients priorities change.

For the few actual publications I have written I have no problem with a long review process - as long as it doesn't create too much additional work.

Frank T. Edelmann Michael Patriksson Can't agree more, gentlemen. Unfortunate enough, it is still very popular in universities of some parts of the world asking their staff/students for as many publications as possible, and as soon as possible. And the 'culture' cultivates the predatory journals, and the opportunists who dilute and deteriorate the reputation of academia. Sure enough, this is a big topic worthy serious discussions on itself.

Review papers are very important and require prior procedures. I don't think that its publication in a "good and high impact factor journal" can be done in record time, even if you are an expert. So I join Dr Michael Patriksson , in his "NO HURRY" concept.

Good Luck!

@Dassekpo

Rick Manner How come you have a deadline? With me, if I have written a manuscript, and considered it ready, I might ask someone to read it, too, to get feedback, and after that I let the manuscript be for a while, and I read it again a week or so later. If I do not see anything to do with it, then I submit it.

Sathish Kumar there are also some technical questions which come to my mind. Did you already write the manuscript? If yes, did you make sure that the review article is timely and that it doesn't duplicate another recent review? The main question, however, should be to make sure that the topic of the review fits the scope of the journal. The review time is definitely of secondary importance.

Indeed: to be in a hurry is unwise - you're going to make mistakes; you will also with almost 100% certainty miss some vital articles, just because you do not take the time it takes to actually find the articles to discuss, how to relate them to each other, and how to assess them, based on a categorisation, as well as to trace the development in a lucid fashion.

Let Erli Lu know, too.

@Sathish Kumar To my opinion, writing a review is a bit difficult task compared to writing an original research article. Before writing a review, one should ask oneself as to why he is writing, what new he is writing, and for whom he is writing?? After the MS is ready, then comes selection of journals. There are both category of journals: open access and hybrid, and impact factor and non-impact factor journals. Depending upon the worth of MS, you should make judicious selection of journals. Once you submit the article fulfilling the chosen journal's requirement, it may be screened out or sent for review. Mostly the decision for rejection or possible revision as per reviewers' suggestion comes after 6-8 weeks in most standard journals. Even after first revision, you may be asked for the second, and possibly for third time revision too. Therefore, 2 month's time is a very short period for getting even acceptance from a reputed or newly started journal from a well known publisher. However, if you want to get it published in any journal, there is a long list of journals in which you can publish your article online within 1-2 days of submission of MS after paying article processing and publication charge the world over including India.