Journal info (provided by editor)

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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
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

Characteristics of peer review process

Quality of review reports
4.3 / 5.0
Overall rating manuscript handling
3.9 / 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.