Journal title
Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
5.4 weeks
13.9 weeks
n/a
1 reports
2
2
Accepted
4.6 weeks
10.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
3
Accepted
n/a
n/a
3 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
6.1 weeks
9.7 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
4
Accepted
5.9 weeks
5.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
4
Accepted
Motivation: They returned the decision letter very quickly. The decision letter made it very clear which points need to be fixed, and which points can be ignored.
10.4 weeks
10.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
3
Rejected
Motivation: The submission was for Express Letters category. I am disappointed that the decision was reject, but the reviews were fair. I revised the paper for a different journal which is more descriptively oriented, and it was eventually accepted.
n/a
n/a
0 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
Motivation: The answer came exactly three hours after submission
7.4 weeks
14.9 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
3
Accepted
n/a
n/a
9 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
n/a
n/a
6 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
Motivation: The review process is fast. Even though the manuscript is rejected by editors directly, the response from the editor is quite reasonable and convincing.
10.1 weeks
10.1 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
2
Rejected
Motivation: The review process is quite long. The editor decided to send out the manuscript for review after two weeks upon initial submission. We received the comments from reviewers 8 weeks later. It seems that the whole process is time consuming and the manuscript tracking system is clumsy.
4.3 weeks
4.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
1
0
Drawn back
20.6 weeks
20.6 weeks
n/a
0 reports
n/a
2
Rejected
Motivation: Taking nearly 6 months to reject a paper without even a referee report seems ridiculous to me.
25.1 weeks
25.1 weeks
n/a
1 reports
3
3
Rejected
2.3 weeks
2.3 weeks
n/a
1 reports
3
5
Rejected
38.9 weeks
38.9 weeks
n/a
1 reports
4
4
Rejected
10.6 weeks
12.3 weeks
n/a
1 reports
2
4
Accepted
17.6 weeks
29.4 weeks
n/a
1 reports
4
4
Accepted
15.3 weeks
15.3 weeks
n/a
1 reports
4
3
Rejected
1.7 weeks
1.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
1
4
Rejected
n/a
n/a
1 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
5.9 weeks
8.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
Motivation: Takes a bit of time from submission to allocation of manuscript number but very quick review and response
18.4 weeks
26.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
2
2
Accepted
Motivation: Review process took too long. Second round was not needed. Editor should have been able to make decision with our response to the first round.
13.3 weeks
13.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
Motivation: Review process was relatively quick (although it missed the editor's target of 2 months by 50%). Once the article was accepted it awaited publication for another 11 months.
13.0 weeks
13.0 weeks
n/a
4 reports
4
4
Rejected
Motivation: Reviewer comments were pertinent, well-documented and demonstrated good knowledge of the field.
9.4 weeks
9.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Rejected
Motivation: Reviewer critiques were extensive and well-documented. Reviewer feedback was useful in significantly revising and restructuring our manuscript before resubmission elsewhere.
4.3 weeks
8.3 weeks
n/a
4 reports
4
4
Accepted
n/a
n/a
14 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
6.6 weeks
6.6 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Rejected
n/a
n/a
3 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
4.1 weeks
4.6 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
4
Accepted
Motivation: Quick reviewing process with nice suggestions of the reviewers in the meantime that have contributed to improve final quality of the work
2.9 weeks
2.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
1
4
Rejected
3.6 weeks
4.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
16.0 weeks
22.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
3
Drawn back
12.6 weeks
12.7 weeks
n/a
0 reports
n/a
3
Accepted
Motivation: Minor corrections to the typesetting of equations took over one month for the publishers to correct. Response to questions about article status very slow. The stated expected turnaround of 4 months for peer review seems overly long - I received a request from the same journal to review an article within 3 weeks.
4.6 weeks
9.7 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
4
Accepted
Motivation: The reviewers suggested nice comments.
Immediately accepted after 3.4 weeks
Accepted (im.)
4.7 weeks
12.7 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
4
Accepted
5.6 weeks
9.6 weeks
n/a
1 reports
5
4
Accepted
Motivation: Very nice journal regarding choosing reviewers and their comments.
22.7 weeks
24.6 weeks
n/a
4 reports
5
2
Rejected
Motivation: I made significant changes to my original manuscript in response to comments from three peer reviewers (all supportive of my paper - recommending minor revisions to the structure and some additional references) and Special Issue editors (who were not supportive of my paper). The Special Issue editors did not accept my revised manuscript. However, the editor of the journal did like the paper so he recommended some further changes and asked that I consider resubmitting. I made these changes and resubmitted, wherein it was sent to new reviewers. These reviewers were also supportive of the paper, but suggested further extensive changes, many of which contradicted suggested changes from the first round of reviews and comments from the editor. Final result was the drafting of three (very different) versions of the same paper, all receiving different feedback. I gave up at this point. I was very dissatisfied with this process.