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Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
6.4 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
13.2 months
Decision time immediate rejection
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Average number of review rounds
2.5 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
4.0 / 5.0 (difficult)
Average number of review reports
2.5 reports

Characteristics of peer review process

Quality of review reports
3.8 / 5.0
Overall rating manuscript handling
2.3 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 28.6 weeks. Overall rating: 1 (bad). Outcome: Accepted.

Motivation:
The length of the review process was painfully slow. In the second round of reviews, I only received a review from one of the two reviewers and the entire review was 3 sentences long and one of the sentences complimented our improvements from the first round of edits. We were able to address these comments quickly, and it took another five months almost before the manuscript was accepted after these minor edits.
2.3
Moderate process
4 reviews
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Disciplines

Ecology Geophysics Parasitology and Virology

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