Popularity scores

January 2026
Journal popularity score 998
Discipline popularity scores (quartiles)
Environmental science 4(Q1)
Pollution and Waste Management 1(Q1)
Public health 5(Q1)
Toxicology 1(Q1)

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
3.8 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
4.2 months
Decision time immediate rejection
27 days
Overall rating manuscript handling
3.9 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

Average number of review rounds
2.0 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
3.8 / 5.0 (difficult)
Average number of review reports
2.0 reports
Quality of review reports
4.3 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 28.1 weeks. Overall rating: 2 (moderate). Outcome: Drawn back.

Motivation:
The peer review process at Chemosphere was extremely slow. It took over a month for our paper to be assigned to an editor. Eventually after several email exchanges with the editor, they identified peer reviewers for the article. The final peer review comments were quite straightforward and fair; however, we ultimately decided to withdraw the paper because Chemosphere was delisted from Web of Science.