Latest review
First review round: 5.7 weeks. Overall rating: 1 (bad).
Outcome: Accepted.
Motivation:
The editor served no purpose but to simply forward the reviewer comments to the authors and back, leaving the authors at the mercy of a reviewer who refused to accept a certain style of writing. The editor seemed to show no interest in evaluating the manuscript on its merits. Additional revisions were requested after the manuscript was accepted. The quality control team kept asking for nonsensical changes (figures in the main text, figures out of the main text, separate captions included in the PDF, ...), sending communication and manuscript back and forth for several days after each resubmission. The whole process took well over one year, 4-5 rounds of revisions, with only linguistic/textual changes between the initial and final submission.
