Latest review
First review round: 15.9 weeks. Overall rating: 1 (bad).
Outcome: Rejected.
Motivation:
Despite relatively positive reviews, the manuscript was rejected outright. The editor claimed to have read the manuscript, but showed no signs of having knowledge of its content in the decision letter. She also did not respond to further inquiries and instead had an editorial assistant sending me an unintelligible e-mail. A further problem was that there was a potential conflict of interest with one of the reviewers coming from my department.