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Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
5.1 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
5.1 months
Decision time immediate rejection
10 days
Average number of review rounds
1.0 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
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Average number of review reports
2.0 reports

Characteristics of peer review process

Quality of review reports
2.5 / 5.0
Overall rating manuscript handling
2.0 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 36.0 weeks. Overall rating: 0 (very bad). Outcome: Rejected.

Motivation:
It took 36 weeks to receive a single review. The justification of lack of a second review was that the Associate editor was unable to get a response from Reviewer 2. Period of 36 weeks is likely sufficient to find an alternative second reviewer in the case of lack of response. Moreover, the received review contains suggestion to make comparison with two works from mechanical engineering field (both works with same authors), which are with a weak connection to the work under review and provide clear hint for the identity of the reviewer. This can be considered as inappropriate reviewing practice.