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Response to all submissions was prompt and professional. The reviewer comments and suggestions were very helpful and improved the manuscript.
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I received the following message:
Prior to the allocation of manuscripts to reviewers, we review each manuscript for the inclusion of a conceptual framework and literature review, the clarity of methodology and the elaboration of findings within the manuscript. Further, we look for the ways authors have situated their studies within the context of the international community of teaching and teacher education research. After our reading of your manuscript we decided that it would not be suitable for publication in Teaching and Teacher Education.
We wish you success as you seek publication in another outlet. We will be happy to review other papers you might submit in the future.
Prior to the allocation of manuscripts to reviewers, we review each manuscript for the inclusion of a conceptual framework and literature review, the clarity of methodology and the elaboration of findings within the manuscript. Further, we look for the ways authors have situated their studies within the context of the international community of teaching and teacher education research. After our reading of your manuscript we decided that it would not be suitable for publication in Teaching and Teacher Education.
We wish you success as you seek publication in another outlet. We will be happy to review other papers you might submit in the future.
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The quality of the review reports was excellent. The only negative aspect was the duration of the review process.
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The review process were too long and bad. After 7 month, my manuscript was rejected. It took long too much and the reviewers' comment were not very scientific.
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Great comments from only one reviewer
Too much time for taken for all process
Too much time for taken for all process
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At least it was fast
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While we did not receive the outcome we were hoping for (paper rejected), we got 4 reviews in a very timely manner (<2 months), all of which had helpful advice for improving the paper for submission to a different journal in the future.
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I received the following message:
Thank you for submitting your manuscript to the International Journal of Nursing Studies. The Editorial Committee has considered your paper. We regret to inform you that it has not been accepted for publication.
We are only able to publish a small proportion of papers submitted and so this sometimes happens with perfectly good papers which we are unable to make a priority to publish because competition for space is high or the fit to the journal's aim is not sufficiently close. You might wish to consider submitting your paper to a more specialist journal, such as the Journal of Nursing Management.
We hope that an early decision gives you opportunity to pursue publication elsewhere. We wish you luck and hope that you will consider the International Journal of Nursing Studies again in the future.
Thank you for submitting your manuscript to the International Journal of Nursing Studies. The Editorial Committee has considered your paper. We regret to inform you that it has not been accepted for publication.
We are only able to publish a small proportion of papers submitted and so this sometimes happens with perfectly good papers which we are unable to make a priority to publish because competition for space is high or the fit to the journal's aim is not sufficiently close. You might wish to consider submitting your paper to a more specialist journal, such as the Journal of Nursing Management.
We hope that an early decision gives you opportunity to pursue publication elsewhere. We wish you luck and hope that you will consider the International Journal of Nursing Studies again in the future.
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We submitted a replication of a study that was previously published in Learning and Individual Differences. The original work was rife with errors between the results, analyses, and interpretation of these results.
Our findings demonstrated that the original results did not replicate and we even refined the previous work within a larger, more diverse sample. We do not believe that our manuscript was free of faults, but it was a major improvement over the original work.
Two out of three of our reviewers suggested publication of our manuscript pending edits, however one reviewer flat out rejected our work without strong rationale for doing so. They stated that we misquoted and misinterpreted the original paper- which is not true at all. We provided direct quotations from the original manuscript!
The editor then took 7 months to reject the manuscript, stated that the manuscript had its strengths, but then indicated it wasn't an appropriate fit for the journal. Again, this was a replication of work that was previously published in Learning and Individual Differences... so how does it not fit within the journal four years after the original study is published.
10 out of 10 would NOT recommend.
Our findings demonstrated that the original results did not replicate and we even refined the previous work within a larger, more diverse sample. We do not believe that our manuscript was free of faults, but it was a major improvement over the original work.
Two out of three of our reviewers suggested publication of our manuscript pending edits, however one reviewer flat out rejected our work without strong rationale for doing so. They stated that we misquoted and misinterpreted the original paper- which is not true at all. We provided direct quotations from the original manuscript!
The editor then took 7 months to reject the manuscript, stated that the manuscript had its strengths, but then indicated it wasn't an appropriate fit for the journal. Again, this was a replication of work that was previously published in Learning and Individual Differences... so how does it not fit within the journal four years after the original study is published.
10 out of 10 would NOT recommend.
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They will not send the manuscript to the same reviewers, hence new corrections will be asked each and every time. Finally after 1 year, they will accept the manuscript by saying "While there are still improvements in language and the study would be stronger with the added information, I'm inclined to accept it at this stage simply because of the length of time it has been with us, and the work the authors have put into it".
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Three high quality reviews and a helpful action editor. Really rapid turnaround. We submitted to Collabra for its expert editorial board and novel institution-backed open access publishing model. We were not disappointed.
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The editor rejected the revised version of the paper based on the decision of the 2nd reviewer's point, which was completely based on the type of data used for the analysis and nothing else. The 2nd reviewer pointed out that they did not even bothered looking at the revisions due to the fact that the use of cross-sectional data cannot be used to disentangle hypotheses as proposed in the paper. The journal had already published several similar papers using cross-sectional data to draw upon similar theses/causal mechanisms - under the same editor. Further, if this were to be an issue, the editor should have desk rejected it not make it go through a one year review process and have such positions made clear in the "about the journal" section and or instructions to authors.
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Unlike our previous experience, the review process was swift, and we had (I believe) 7 different reviewers who were generally very positive and very constructive. I believe the paper did end up being much better due to the review process.
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Instead of the promised 'one month to review', we waited 3 months. Got an email that they were having trouble finding reviewers after 3 months. Then a few days later, they sent one apparently fairly hasty statistical review. There were several excellent comments that would have been readily addressed. The reviewer's main concern, however, indicate s/he had not read the manuscript very closely (did not understand the main dependent variable despite descriptions in methods and figures). This feels like we did not receive a proper peer review...and waiting this long only to then receive minimal review, is highly disappointing and beneath what I'd expect of PLoS ONE.
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none
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non
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Relatively quick turn around times. Good communication from the journal and reviewers comments were constructive without being too critical.
8.1 weeks
8.1 weeks
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1 reports
Accepted
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A slow review process, likely because of the holiday events (Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, New Year) which is excusable.
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Considering that I have papers waiting at other journals for nearly 9 months now (without any feedback from editorial offices), the speed of Journal of Peace Research was quite refreshing.