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Aims and scope

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Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
1.5 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
1.9 months
Decision time immediate rejection
3 days
Average number of review rounds
1.7 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
2.3 / 5.0 (easy)
Average number of review reports
2.6 reports

Characteristics of peer review process

Quality of review reports
3.9 / 5.0
Overall rating manuscript handling
4.0 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 13.4 weeks. Overall rating: 2 (moderate). Outcome: Rejected.

Motivation:
Long interval from first submission to the decision (>3 months). Associate editor provided a short note stating that reviewer's ratings for the priority of the work in combination with several major issues was the reason for rejection. However, 2 out of the 3 reviewers stated that the work was interesting/novel and the third reviewer did not dispute its merit. Comments were easily addressable and none of them pointed to a major methodological flaw or lack of scientific validity. Overall a disappointing process and outcome.