Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
n/a
n/a
15 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2025
Motivation:
It is ACS Chemical Biology's policy to return a proportion of manuscripts without sending them to external referees. Decisions of this kind are made by members of the Board of Editors (BOE), often on the advice of regular advisers, when it appears that papers are unlikely to succeed in the competition for limited space.
4.1 weeks
4.1 weeks
n/a
3 reports
Rejected
2018
Motivation:
1 reviewer was for, the 2 others were against acceptance but without clear scientific reasons. One of the last reviewer said the manuscript might be out of scope...
4.3 weeks
4.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
Accepted
2018