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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Aims and scope

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Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
5.8 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
14.5 months
Decision time immediate rejection
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Overall rating manuscript handling
0.3 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

Average number of review rounds
2.3 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
3.7 / 5.0 (difficult)
Average number of review reports
1.7 reports
Quality of review reports
2.3 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 33.1 weeks. Overall rating: 1 (bad). Outcome: Rejected.

Motivation:
The editor hand picked a very negative reviewer for round 2, who came up with a lot of non-substantive feedback. Some critique went against things we had implemented after the first review round. In the end, in round three new critique was raised that went against fundamental questions of the data collection. To identify these should be the editors or the first round reviewers task, not a third round review. In part condescending tone in both the reviews and the editorial communication.