Popularity scores

January 2026
Journal popularity score 936
Discipline popularity scores (quartiles)
Analytical Chemistry 20(Q1)
Botany 32(Q1)
Food Science 30(Q1)
Alternative medicine 5(Q1)

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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Two-year impact factor
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Aims and scope

The editor has not yet provided this information.

Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
0.5 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
1.9 months
Decision time immediate rejection
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Overall rating manuscript handling
5.0 / 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
2.0 reports
Quality of review reports
4.0 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 2.0 weeks. Overall rating: 5 (excellent). Outcome: Accepted.

Motivation:
Very reasonabvle reviews, positive but critical. Helped to improved and focus the paper. The editor was very keen in obtaining graphics and figures of high quality and in a very specific way, which actually imporved the presentation. Happy with it and will submit more work to PCA