Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
Drawn back before first editorial decision after 32.0 days
Drawn back
2013
Motivation: Submitted manuscripts are not assigned directly to an editor. Instead, editors can decide to take up the responsibility of handling the review process of a paper on a purely voluntary basis. Sometimes an editor with a high expertise in the field of the submitted paper is found quickly through this process, but in other cases no-one on the editorial board takes responsibility for the manuscript, and it is in practice rejected by the secretarial office without giving the author any explanation or scientific justification for the decision.