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Environmental Modelling and Software

SciRev ratings (provided by authors) (based on 8 reviews)

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Duration first review round 4.8 mnths compare →
Total handling time accepted manuscripts 5.0 mnths compare →
Decision time immediate rejection 34 days compare →
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Average number of review reports 3.0 compare →
Average number of review rounds 1.4 compare →
Quality of review reports 3.6 compare →
Difficulty of reviewer comments 4.5 compare →
Overall rating manuscript handling 3.2 (range 0-5) compare →

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First review round: 17.4 weeks. Overall rating: 3 (good). Outcome: Rejected.

Motivation:
The journal is fast, and the editors are very responsible, however, the quality of reviewer's comments are low and biased. One reviewer clearly neither has a good understanding of the methodology nor carefully read the manuscript, given 1) give comments that are theoretically incorrect on the model; 2) point out a limitation that has already been properly dealt with as a major problem. In conclusion, as a top-tier journal, the experience is really disappointing.

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Journal info (provided by editor)

Issues per year
12
Articles published last year
205
Manuscripts received last year
989
% accepted last year
22
% immediately rejected last year
n/a
Open access status
optional
Manuscript handling fee?
no
Kind of complaint procedure
n/a
Two-year impact factor
4.54
Five-year impact factor
4.28

Aims and Scope

Environmental Modelling & Software publishes research articles, reviews and short communications on recent advances in environmental modelling and/or software. The aim is to improve our capacity to represent, understand, predict or manage the behaviour of environmental systems at all practical scales, and to communicate those improvements to a wide scientific and professional audience.

EMS publishes contributions in the areas of:
• Generic frameworks and techniques for multi-disciplinary issues
• Development, evaluation and application of environmental models, software, information and decision support systems
• Issues and methods related to the integrated modelling, assessment and management of environmental systems