Journal title
Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
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The manuscript was rejected as the reviewers find the results not adequate to a journal that deals with actual power source. The reviewers contend that, given the depth of the Microbiology-related discussion in the manuscript, it was more suitable for a general Biotechnology Journal. I think the reviewers were correct and the Editor decision was the right one.
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The Editor handles the submission very well. I strongly recommend this journal to those that work with the quantitative aspect of Biotechnology.
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Quick reply. My paper was the logical update of another paper already publicised on the same journal. Therefore, I believe it was coherent to continue publishing on the same open topic
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This was a theoretical paper (which are known to be hard to push through). I found Reviewer 1 very good. In a polite way, s/he appreciated the things s/he found good, and also pointed out the gaps in the paper. This served a lot.
I felt Reviewer 2 acid. In a very ironic way, s/he picked at everything - in a part of these, however, s/he was right. This was useful but the way s/he behaved, was degrading.
Altogether, these reviews was very useful for me because I could re-elaborate the paper which became much stronger.
The whole editorial process was smooth and rapid, the people working at PNAS was polite and elegant. Thank you.
I felt Reviewer 2 acid. In a very ironic way, s/he picked at everything - in a part of these, however, s/he was right. This was useful but the way s/he behaved, was degrading.
Altogether, these reviews was very useful for me because I could re-elaborate the paper which became much stronger.
The whole editorial process was smooth and rapid, the people working at PNAS was polite and elegant. Thank you.
10.0 weeks
14.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
Accepted
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Very professional editorial process
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Professional process of the paper; correct!
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Very slow process
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I was very satisfied with the way the Editor offered us guidance and has been attentive to the specific nature of our manuscript. The reviewers' comments have been very focused, and have contributed a lot to improve our work
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Great comments and very helpful suggestions giving me many avenues for my next revision. The reviewers and the editor were very encouraging and helpful in providing a critical and important assessment of the scientific rigor of my work. I took their suggestions and improved my manuscript significantly. The manuscript has been published and has been praised by colleagues. Although my manuscript was not accepted for publication in Criminology, anonymous reviewers and the editor were helpful in guiding me towards eventual publication. I am most thankful to them.
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After about five months of waiting to see if my coauthored manuscript was sent out for review or rejected outright, I began emailing the editorial staff and the editor of the journal to see if correspondence from them to me had been lost or if my manuscript that I submitted had been lost. I did not hear a word from them for many weeks. After 8 months, I received an e-mail stating that they were waiting for one last reviewer to submit a response. After 9 months I received a casual e-mail from my coauthor stating that she was sad that the journal rejected our article. I suspected that the journal sent their official response to her and not to me. I sent a last e-mail asking that the journal please send me the reviews and the editor's decision because I was the corresponding author. I was surprised about what I received after 9 months of waiting and many e-mails inquiring what I could do from my end to help locate any lost correspondences. There were only two reviews. One was one paragraph and the other was one page long. Both suggested that the article be rejected outright, but neither offered details to support the decision or suggestions for improvement. To this day, I don't know why it took 9 months to receive two reviews comprising only a page and one paragraph worth of comments. By the way, I immediately submitted my article to another prestigious journal in criminology and received three excellent reviews with many insightful and engaging critiques and suggestions. After revising the manuscript, the paper was accepted and one reviewer (the most critical and insightful), commented that the paper was destined to become a classic in the field. The stark contrast between my review experiences could, of course, have much to do with scholarly differences of opinion in the field and the importance of finding a good fit between a manuscript and a journal. But, still, 9 months seems too long to wait to receive two scant and extremely disengaged reviews.
11.0 weeks
11.0 weeks
n/a
1 reports
Rejected
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one reviewer has not completely read the paper; he claimed himself being not an expert in the field, but would be able to regularly "understand" articles in the field; advised author to have persons with "no idea" about the topic to review possible resubmission beforehand
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Rapid review in relation to experience with other journals
Relevant and incisive comments from reviewers who demonstrated knowledge of field and had clearly read the article properly.
No irrelevant comments/critic
Relevant and incisive comments from reviewers who demonstrated knowledge of field and had clearly read the article properly.
No irrelevant comments/critic
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The reviewprocess took very long and in my opinion one of the reviewer seemed not to have read the manuscript properly. When we requested response from the editor because of apperent missunderstandings in the reviewers comments we did not recieve any answer.
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The review process was good in the statistical analysis of the results
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The reviewers appeared to be in a hurry, looking for any excuse to reject. The reasons they gave were imaginary, things that existed only in the reveiwer's minds. The words they used did not match the contents of the paper. This is irresponsible behavior. The publishing of papers is the primary criteria for being hired into research positions. These reviewers have tremendous power over the lives of authors. There needs to be a feedback mechanism in place that corrects their behavior when they act irresponsibly like this.
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The paper was accepted within a reasonable amount of time and the Editor very nicely showed concern in speeding up the publication (proposing us to publish the paper in a special issue). I didn't put the mark "10" just because I like to read the referees's report and we didn't have access to them (but I confess I didn't ask and was happy with the acceptance)
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The review process was rather fast as compared to other journals (2 reviews after about 5 weeks). The comments of one reviewer were very destructive and did not seem reasonable to me.
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The Editor rejected the paper, although the Reviewer's comments seemed quite positive to me. I could not really understand the Editor's decision.
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The Editor's as well as the Reviewer's comments were very helpful and constructive-minded, they helped to further improve the quality of the paper. In my opinion, the first review round took relatively long, but after that, everything went fine and quickly.
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This was my first experience with double-blinded process. I have to say that it was a really positive experience for the obvious reason; I noticed that there was not bias at all in the process regarding our experience in the field. They evaluate only the submitted work.
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The reviewers were knowledgable about the topic and offered good insight. The review was prompt as were the AEs reports and final decision.
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I think the reviewers put effort in their reviews, and the paper became better thanks to the reviews. The whole process took long though, and I felt it wasn't necessary to send the paper to the reviewers a third time.
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I am satisfied with the reviewing process, only the time for the first reviews could have been shorter.
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My main concern is about the reviewers. After adding new data (according to the reviews) and re-submission, one reviewer came up with totally new points that could have been addressed already in the first version of the manuscript.