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Science
Journal info (provided by editor)
- Issues per year
- 51
- Articles published last year
- 825
- Manuscripts received last year
- 9999
- % accepted last year
- 6
- % immediately rejected last year
- 83
- Open access status
- no
- Manuscript handling fee?
- no
- Kind of complaint procedure
- Editor
- Two-year impact factor
- 47.73
- Five-year impact factor
- 51.43
Disciplines:
General
About
Science seeks submissions from all fields of science and from any source and publishes those papers that are most influential in their fields or across fields and that will significantly advance scientific understanding. Selected papers should present novel and broadly important data, syntheses, or concepts, and should merit recognition by the wider scientific community and general public.
SciRev ratings (provided by authors) (based on 69 reviews)
| Duration of manuscript handling phases | ||
|---|---|---|
| Duration first review round | 2.3 mnths | compare → |
| Total handling time accepted manuscripts | 5.2 mnths | compare → |
| Decision time immediate rejection | 11 days | compare → |
| Characteristics of peer review process | ||
| Average number of review reports | 2.9 | compare → |
| Average number of review rounds | 1.8 | compare → |
| Quality of review reports | 3.5 | compare → |
| Difficulty of reviewer comments | 2.5 | compare → |
| Overall rating manuscript handling | 3.5 (range 0-5) | compare → |