Journal title
Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Asia Pacific Journal of Management
13.0 weeks
19.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
5
Accepted
Motivation: I think APJM is a suitable place to submit your studies related to the management issues in emerging markets
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
2.0 weeks
2.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
5
Accepted
European Planning Studies
1.4 weeks
1.6 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
0.1 weeks
3.7 weeks
n/a
3 reports
5
5
Accepted
Plant Cell
13.0 weeks
17.4 weeks
n/a
3 reports
5
3
Accepted
Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems
30.4 weeks
34.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
4
Accepted
Motivation: "Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems" is one of the leading journals in the field of fuzzy set theory. That's great.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
4.3 weeks
4.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
5
Accepted
Motivation: This was the second time I submitted a paper to this journal and, as the first time, I was impressed with the efficiency of the review process.
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
2.9 weeks
3.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
5
Accepted
Motivation: Good quality reviews; the paper improved after the suggested changes; extremely efficient editorial processing
Educational Studies
32.0 weeks
35.7 weeks
n/a
1 reports
4
3
Accepted
Motivation: The quality of the reviews was positive, but the time it took to get an initial answer (7 months) was very long
Journal of Studies in International Education
15.0 weeks
19.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
2
3
Accepted
Studies in Higher Education
11.9 weeks
25.7 weeks
n/a
3 reports
3
3
Accepted
Motivation: Some reviewers made pertinent and helpful comments, but others did not and made comments which suggested they failed to understand the message of the paper. A better choice of reviewers would have helped. However, the editor proved to be very competent in dealing with the reviews and the changes made to the manuscript.
Studies in Higher Education
17.7 weeks
25.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
5
Accepted
Motivation: Well chosen reviewers, good feedback overall, and very comptently conducted editorial process
Higher Education
41.0 weeks
54.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
3
Accepted
Motivation: Despite the quality of the reviews, it took extremely long to get even a first decision.
Journal of Education Policy
13.0 weeks
13.0 weeks
n/a
3 reports
3
3
Rejected
Pattern Recognition
17.4 weeks
21.7 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
5
Accepted
Motivation: I have two papers accepted in Pattern Recognition and, in my opinion, it is a great journal. I have two more papers being revised in this journal and I really recommend it.
Pattern Recognition Letters
9.1 weeks
13.5 weeks
n/a
3 reports
5
5
Accepted
Motivation: Very good journal!
Chemosphere
43.4 weeks
43.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
5
Accepted
Frontiers in Plant Science
5.0 weeks
7.1 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
5
Accepted
Motivation: Frontiers provides authors chance to direct to interact with the reviewer, which is sometime quite useful.
Thermochimica Acta
8.7 weeks
11.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
4
Accepted
Operational Research
16.0 weeks
30.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
4
Accepted
mBio
13.1 weeks
15.1 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
4
Accepted
Sociologia
32.0 weeks
39.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
3
Accepted
ICES Journal of Marine Science
13.4 weeks
20.6 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
Motivation: Editor had a really good read of the paper.
She really persisted with it and resulted in a better paper.
Journal of the Asian Ceramic Societies
3.0 weeks
5.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
4
Accepted
American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology
2.0 weeks
3.0 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
5
Accepted
Biochemical Engineering Journal
3.0 weeks
4.0 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
4
Accepted
Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society
47.7 weeks
47.7 weeks
n/a
1 reports
5
5
Accepted
Motivation: the general J. Serb. Chem.Soc. is good with quality of publications. It has a regrious peer review process.
Further this is good way of scirev to formulate such questionnaire which is important for scientific society and speeding the review process.
Biogeosciences
6.1 weeks
6.6 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
Brain Research Bulletin
4.6 weeks
4.6 weeks
n/a
1 reports
4
4
Accepted
Renewable Energy
11.3 weeks
11.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
1
3
Accepted
Energy
4.3 weeks
4.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
0
2
Rejected
Motivation: The first reviewer (who rejected the paper) wrote exactly one sentence. It is really hard to grasp why the paper was rejected from such a short information.

The second reviewer did a lengthy, very complete review of my work, and raised several important points that later on improved the paper. However, he was obviously biased against my research topic and the reason for rejection was not quite clear.
Scientometrics
21.7 weeks
21.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
3
Accepted
International Journal of Energy Research
8.7 weeks
8.7 weeks
n/a
4 reports
3
3
Accepted
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
49.6 weeks
49.6 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
4
Accepted
Mathematische Annalen
24.7 weeks
24.7 weeks
n/a
1 reports
5
5
Accepted
Review of Economics and Statistics
64.4 weeks
77.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
5
Accepted
Electric Power Systems Research
8.7 weeks
13.0 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
4
Accepted
Cancer Research
13.0 weeks
56.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
Motivation: The review process eventually helped to improve the quality of the paper, but not all comments were necessarily benign and constructive.
Carbon
10.8 weeks
11.8 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
4
Accepted
Atmospheric Environment
8.7 weeks
13.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
Motivation: The manuscript was handled by the journal in a very professional manner.