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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Aims and scope

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Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
6.2 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
10.3 months
Decision time immediate rejection
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Overall rating manuscript handling
1.0 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

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

Latest review

First review round: 26.7 weeks. Overall rating: 1 (bad). Outcome: Rejected.

Motivation:
The paper went through two rounds of reviewers, with all 7 (in total) reviewers satisfied, apart from a single exception. This reviewer kept making increasingly unreasonable requests and, even when those were satisfied, they were still not satisfied. The editor then chose to follow this single reviewer's decision and reject the paper, ignoring the opinion of all other reviewers. This process took 13 months in total. It would have been better if the editor had rejected the paper after the first round of reviews.