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Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
2.7 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
4.7 months
Decision time immediate rejection
3 days
Average number of review rounds
1.6 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
3.7 / 5.0 (difficult)
Average number of review reports
2.4 reports

Characteristics of peer review process

Quality of review reports
3.8 / 5.0
Overall rating manuscript handling
3.6 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 15.2 weeks. Overall rating: 4 (very good). Outcome: Accepted.

Motivation:
PLOS Medicine recruited excellent peer reviewers who understood our manuscript and gave constructive advice that improved its quality. The journal clearly prioritizes high-quality research, and brought in an additional expert to review the manuscript after the original peer reviewers. On the downside, this emphasis on quality creates a lot of work for the authors, including a fair amount of finicky formatting. This (plus the high-quality peer reviews) slowed down the publication process.
3.6
Very good process
9 reviews
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Disciplines

Medicine

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