Latest review
First review round: 4.3 weeks. Overall rating: 0 (very bad).
Outcome: Rejected.
Motivation:
The reviewer had deliberately hindered our publication process! With every new revision, he was pointing out issues he allegedly did not notice before; he argued that one of our figures was not HD enough and that he could not see the details in it. The editor rejected our paper based on appearance issues, without providing solid arguments regarding the scientific information in the paper. Not to mention that during our 6-month review process, a very similar paper was published in a different journal. We sent a formal letter drawing attention to this potential conflict of interest, and we were outright silenced and rejected.
