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Motivation:
I got several courtesy mails because the review process took so long.
Motivation:
It took more than 3 months to get this feedback on the article : "Thank you for submitting your manuscript. All new submissions are given a
preliminary review by the editors to evaluate whether the subject matter and
general content are appropriate for this journal.
Unfortunately, the editors were of the opinion that the topic covered in
your manuscript is outside the scope of this journal and are better suited
for a journal that publishes papers in that area."
Usually I get this kind of feedback one ore two days after having submitted the article. I can't imagine why it took so long with this journal. I hope other scholars won't waste their time with this journal.
preliminary review by the editors to evaluate whether the subject matter and
general content are appropriate for this journal.
Unfortunately, the editors were of the opinion that the topic covered in
your manuscript is outside the scope of this journal and are better suited
for a journal that publishes papers in that area."
Usually I get this kind of feedback one ore two days after having submitted the article. I can't imagine why it took so long with this journal. I hope other scholars won't waste their time with this journal.
Motivation:
My ms presents a view against a stronly held concnesus. The way I wrote it was provocative, and maybe offensive to many. So a rejection was expected. However, the reviewer recommended rejection by twisting the views of both what I criticize, and mine. I thought it was unfair and wrote a rebuttal to the editor. Never hear back from the editor about my rebuttal!
Motivation:
I appreciate the prompt read and rejection of the paper for not being a good fit with the journal. It allows me to submit elsewhere while the topic is current.
Motivation:
The review took over 10 months, and several unreturned emails checking on the status of the review. After this wait, one review was one paragraph long and simply stated the abstract should be "jazzed up". The other review was two paragraphs without much substance. For a top journal, I was disappointed in the length of review, quality of review and lack of communication.
Motivation:
The editor is very involved in the review process. This was my second experience with EUP and although the review process is tough, it is also overall rather fair and the editor seems to be able to get reviewers who are both fast and efficient.
Motivation:
The process was overall ok. My main issue is that we submitted the paper to a special issue, but it was considered "off topic" and then sent to the regular track. It took 3 months to receive the reply, which is more or less the average in my field.
Motivation:
No one likes rejection, but at least it was handled quickly
Motivation:
My only complaint is the time taken rather than the quality of the reviews
Motivation:
My manuscript was revised thoroughly. I got feedback from both reviewers. In my opinion, it took quiet a long time before I got news.
Motivation:
After waiting for almost six weeks, I got a response from the editor that the paper had been rejected before external review, because the paper would be more appropriate for a public health journal. This reason still doesn't make much sense to me because I had always thought that public health was pone of the areas covered by Social Science and Medicine.
Motivation:
I don't think the editor understood the comments of the reviewers. Either way, he did not give a good reason to reject the piece
Motivation:
Greater editors (they also give very good and constructive comments) and generally great reviewers.
Motivation:
It was clear that the editor did not read the reviews thoroughly. The reviews actually contained comments that were totally wrong. The editor did not even notice did, even though the subject of the paper (and thus the reviews) were very much situated in her research field.
Motivation:
The comments of the reviewers were actually great (very appropriatly selected by the editor). They helped to improve the paper considerably. Also both editors give a lot of suggestions and comments in each round. Only drawback is the long period.
Motivation:
It appears that the editor rejected the paper based on the reference list and and not on the journal's scope.
"There was concern that the topic area of your paper did not make Part B an obvious forum for your work (this is reflected to some extent by the fact that your manuscript does not refer to any Part B papers). This is not a criticism of your paper; it simply suggests that other journals are more appropriate."
"There was concern that the topic area of your paper did not make Part B an obvious forum for your work (this is reflected to some extent by the fact that your manuscript does not refer to any Part B papers). This is not a criticism of your paper; it simply suggests that other journals are more appropriate."
Motivation:
It took very long for the first review. Only after contacting the area editor several times (without any response) a decision was made. The reviewers did not comment much on the main contribution of the paper.
Motivation:
The Lancet claims that it will usually decide whether to send out for review within 2 weeks. This claim of a quick initial decision encourages many authors (including myself) to submit articles to the Lancet, despite its very low acceptance rate. While a rejection was not a huge surprise, I was disappointed with the 6 weeks it took them to reject without review.
Motivation:
A bit slow. No reason given for rejection. Reviews were rather positive so not obvious why decision was made to reject. Thorough reviews, polite and rather constructive.
Motivation:
It took a long time to obtain the review, but it was very thorough and useful. After submitting the changes, the editor requested some minor stylistic changes which again improved the manuscript. Overall, the communication with the journal has been effective.
Motivation:
Relatively fast for a linguistics journal and good, thorough reviews.
Motivation:
Reasonably fast, but a bit disappointing that they had us go through the Initial Quality Check for figures using this dreaded Editorial Manager system three times (a big time investment) — before telling us, two weeks later, that they had barely looked at the manuscript and rejected it anyway for "not having the broad appeal needed for PNAS".
Motivation:
According to the editor, the reason the first round of reviewing took more than PLOS ONE's promised 'month on average' was that it was the summer season. Response after the first inquiry was very fast, and a final decision was made only a few days after resubmission.
Motivation:
The editor's decision was made very quickly, within a week. I received a couple of constructive points for improvement.
Motivation:
Although the paper was rejected, the feedback I received from the editor was very constructive, elaborate, and helpful for further developing the paper.
Motivation:
One reviewer made multiple unprofessional comments that were many times scientifically incorrect and advised to reject. The second reviewer described the paper as "well-written" and asked for minor revisions. The third reviewer also requested only specific revisions. The editors comments referred only to the first reviewers "strongly suggested rejection" opinion and rejected the manuscript based on this with no option of providing a rebuttal against the incorrect claims and statements or opportunity to revise.
Motivation:
There was no option to select "no response received" for this survey. After waiting almost an entire year and constantly contacting the journal for a status update they were unable to inform me of the reason for the delay. Eventually I withdrew my submission and submitted elsewhere as I could not afford to wait even longer with no response at all. It took another month or more just to get confirmation of the withdraw and no reason or apology was given.
Motivation:
My manuscript was accepted in the middle of submission process then suddenly I received further request of major changes. I didn't revise it but I withdrew the paper and submitted it to a higher impact journal in its original state prior to first admission and was accepted in 5 weeks with minor changes requested and done. The most annoying experience with OMJ is that the reviewers sent comments that were not scientifically sound and insisted to be done.
Motivation:
The editor was very professional