Popularity scores

January 2026
Journal popularity score 86.5
Discipline popularity scores (quartiles)
Psychiatry 95(Q1)
Clinical psychology 45(Q1)
Cognitive and experimental psychology 60(Q2)

Journal info (provided by editor)

Manuscripts received last year
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Articles published last year
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% accepted last year
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Immediately rejected last year
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Open access status
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Two-year impact factor
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Aims and scope

The editor has not yet provided this information.

Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
4.7 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
7.0 months
Decision time immediate rejection
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Overall rating manuscript handling
2.5 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

Average number of review rounds
2.0 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
4.0 / 5.0 (difficult)
Average number of review reports
2.0 reports
Quality of review reports
4.0 / 5.0

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.