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Science Advances
Journal info (provided by editor)
- Issues per year
- 51
- Articles published last year
- 2100
- Manuscripts received last year
- 9999
- % accepted last year
- 12
- % immediately rejected last year
- n/a
- Open access status
- open access
- Manuscript handling fee?
- yes
- Fee per manuscript
- $4500
- Kind of complaint procedure
- Editor
- Two-year impact factor
- 13.12
- Five-year impact factor
- 14.09
Disciplines:
General
Aims and Scope
Science Advances is the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) open access multidisciplinary journal, publishing impactful research papers and reviews in any area of science, in both disciplinary-specific and broad, interdisciplinary areas. The mission of Science Advances is to provide fair, fast, and expert peer review to authors and a vetted selection of research, freely available to readers
SciRev ratings (provided by authors) (based on 40 reviews)
| Duration of manuscript handling phases | ||
|---|---|---|
| Duration first review round | 3.0 mnths | compare → |
| Total handling time accepted manuscripts | 5.4 mnths | compare → |
| Decision time immediate rejection | 37 days | compare → |
| Characteristics of peer review process | ||
| Average number of review reports | 2.1 | compare → |
| Average number of review rounds | 1.6 | compare → |
| Quality of review reports | 3.4 | compare → |
| Difficulty of reviewer comments | 3.0 | compare → |
| Overall rating manuscript handling | 3.2 (range 0-5) | compare → |