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

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Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
6.0 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
8.6 months
Decision time immediate rejection
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Overall rating manuscript handling
2.5 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

Average number of review rounds
1.5 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
2.0 / 5.0 (easy)
Average number of review reports
1.5 reports
Quality of review reports
3.5 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 34.7 weeks. Overall rating: 1 (bad). Outcome: Rejected.

Motivation:
After 8 months of not receiving any response from the journal, we contacted them and they claimed that four of the reviewers had declined to review the paper due to the COVID-19, and only one reviewer had accepted to review the paper. It is interesting that the reviewer had suggested revision(the reviewer's comments were of value, however), but the editors decided to reject the paper and suggested a transfer to another journal of a lower ranking with a very high publication fee. So, they just wasted our time with no outcome!