Journal title
Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
4.9 weeks
4.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
1
Rejected
n/a
n/a
5 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
Motivation: Was told that the paper was not novel enough for the journal.
4.0 weeks
5.4 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
4
Accepted
Motivation: IJTIS has a strong editorial team, led by Dr Marina Dabic. The quality of review reports is generally speaking very good, clear and has sufficient details (technical and conceptual) so that submitters can learn how to improve the manuscript without having to guess the reviewers' opinions. The only issue with the journal is sometimes the lag time from acceptance to final production is a bit too slow. But the quality of final product is absolutely satisfactory, and their copy-editing is of high quality too.
n/a
n/a
9 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
5.3 weeks
9.6 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Rejected
Motivation: The first round of revision was totally reasonable. Although I responded to almost all the comments from the first round of reviewing, the second revision (probably a different person) gave the criticism, which led to the rejection. Although I did not think the criticism from the second revision was reasonable, I did not have a chance to rebut it.
18.6 weeks
41.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
2
Accepted
Motivation: The process was very slow.
Drawn back before first editorial decision after 45.0 days
Drawn back
Motivation: The Journal was unable to assign an handling editor (from the Editorial Board) 45 days after the submission (the quality check took only 4 days), because, they said, the Journal has an "external" editorial board and editors reserves themselves the right to refuse to handle manuscripts.
31.4 weeks
31.4 weeks
n/a
0 reports
n/a
1
Rejected
Motivation: not very serious as it took long for a rejection that has been not argumented at all
n/a
n/a
20 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
Motivation: The EIC was very kind and helpful. Despite my work was desk rejected and it took them three weeks to do so, I received helpful feedback to improve my paper.
7.3 weeks
20.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
3
Accepted
Motivation: The reviewers raised important points that, once addressed, significantly improved the manuscript. However, the second round of revisions took too long. The first reviewer accepted to revise the manuscript one more time and then apparently vanished into thin air. The editor waited a long time before contacting a replacement reviewer. We had to contact the editor to get feed back. Also, the online manuscript tracking system is not at all informative as our manuscript had been "under consideration" the whole time and never changed status. We are happy with the outcome and appreciated the comments made by the reviewers, but found the overall process very long.
n/a
n/a
61 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
Motivation: I have submitted an article for a special issue. After almost two months, I have received desk rejection without any comments apart from a note that they were overwhelmed with the number of submissions.
2.3 weeks
2.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
4
Accepted
n/a
n/a
51 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
n/a
n/a
8 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
33.6 weeks
35.6 weeks
n/a
1 reports
3
3
Accepted
Motivation: The process has been rather smooth
n/a
n/a
114 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
Motivation: Gap between submission and editorial decision is too long with nearly 4 months.
2.6 weeks
8.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
17.6 weeks
25.0 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
3
Rejected
5.0 weeks
5.4 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
3
Accepted
Motivation: Review process was fine so far. However, time between publication of online version and positive results of search engines is in the range of months.
n/a
n/a
7 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
9.9 weeks
9.9 weeks
n/a
3 reports
2
3
Rejected
n/a
n/a
3 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
10.6 weeks
29.1 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
3
Accepted
43.3 weeks
43.3 weeks
n/a
5 reports
2
0
Rejected
Motivation: Unacceptably slow, black-boxed process and really weird editorial decisions. The first two reviews were positive by the editor's own admission but were judged not as detailed as optimal, so additional reviewers were invited, one of which turned out to be hostile to the approach. This hostile review, less detailed than the first two, then became the main reason for the editor to reject the ms.

Language has a reputable name, and I've published with them before (also with a >6mo handling time). I'll be advising anyone to steer clear from it, now that seemingly random editorial decisions are added to the ridiculously long handling time.
6.0 weeks
6.1 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
5
Accepted
3.0 weeks
3.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
4
Rejected
4.6 weeks
7.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
n/a
n/a
63 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
Motivation: Waiting time too long for rejection without proofreading
6.0 weeks
10.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
5
Accepted
23.1 weeks
23.1 weeks
n/a
1 reports
2
0
Rejected
Motivation: After submission, it took about 6 weeks until the editor responded and sent the manuscript for external review. Then it took another 11 weeks until they got comments back from only one reviewer after we emailed the editor several times. This extremely slow handling of the manuscript is just irresponsible and lack of efficiency.
7.6 weeks
8.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
5
Accepted
Motivation: I had a great experience with PeerJ. Reviews were thoughtful and helpful. Reviewers also made their names available (not sure if this is optional or not). The submission process was thorough, and their submission system is very modern - for example, you can select which handling editors you recommend according to their expertise. I think the submission set up helps cut down on review time overall, which I really appreciate. They were very strict about including all data, code, and sampling permits, which takes time but is ethically extremely important. PeerJ sometimes waives publication fees as temporary promotions, so if you are concerned about the open-access fees make sure to check their website, social media, or with their managing editors.
28.0 weeks
38.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
2
Accepted
Motivation: The first round of reviews took an abnormally long time (28 weeks), and even then an incomplete set of reviews were sent. These review reports were good and helpful to improve the manuscript. Subsiquent rounds were less helpful.

The proofing process was very poorly done. The online proofing system was not very user friendly. There seems to be a major step between the online proof and as published. A major omission was made and a correction had to be made (by the journal). There are still typos in the final published version that were not in the submission.
5.0 weeks
24.6 weeks
n/a
3 reports
5
3
Accepted
Motivation: Overall the review process did improve and add to the work and paper significantly. But then over 1.25yrs that was bound to happen even without review/editorial comments. Essentially we ended up with 1.5 papers worth of work. By then one of the reviewers - the one who had led to most of grunt work supplementary data addition to the manuscript - was pointing out our own conference abstract which we had presented about parts of the work meanwhile as reason for non-significance & non-novelty! Thankfully the editor didn't care for that one.
27.7 weeks
41.1 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
5
Accepted
11.7 weeks
14.0 weeks
n/a
4 reports
5
3
Rejected
Motivation: The reviews were very strong and very constructive but still surprised with the editor's decision after all the efforts that we put in.
n/a
n/a
1 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
5.0 weeks
5.7 weeks
n/a
4 reports
3
2
Rejected
Motivation: This journal processes the manuscripts quite fast but the quality of the review might not be high.
28.3 weeks
28.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
3
Rejected
n/a
n/a
30 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
Motivation: It took the editor about a month to say that this manuscript is not adequately interesting for HYP.
52.1 weeks
53.1 weeks
n/a
2 reports
2
0
Accepted
Motivation: This journal is very slow in processing the articles. I have had two submissions and it took about a year to hear back the first review report for each. Same thing when they invite you to review. They give you 40 days, which is longer than most of the journals that I have reviewed for.