Popularity scores

January 2026
Journal popularity score 990
Discipline popularity scores (quartiles)
Biochemistry 12(Q1)
Cell biology 9(Q1)
Developmental biology 2(Q1)
Molecular biology 13(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
1.4 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
3.8 months
Decision time immediate rejection
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Overall rating manuscript handling
3.0 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

Average number of review rounds
2.0 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
5.0 / 5.0 (very difficult)
Average number of review reports
3.0 reports
Quality of review reports
3.0 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 6.0 weeks. Overall rating: 3 (good). Outcome: Accepted.

Motivation:
My main problem was the slowness of the process. The time to get editorial feedback back on our proposed scheme for a revision, and then the proposed scheme for the rebuttal and second small revisions, delayed things. Also there was one reviewer who was quite unreasonable and asked for a lot of new experiments on the revised manuscript. The editor overrode them in the end, and focused on the one relevant issue they brought up, which I was grateful for.