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 125.0 days
Drawn back
2025
Motivation:
Submitting the manuscript was easy. After that, I waited for ~10 weeks before I sent an e-mail to ask about the status. Initially, the editorial office told that our manuscript was with the editor (which I also read on their website) and that they asked the editor for an update. Since I didn't get any feedback, me and my professor made additional inquiries with no results. Finally, we sent an ultimatum on which they didn't respond as well. We lost our trust in the reviewing process and draw back our manuscript. Cynically, the editorial office sent a confirmation of the withdrawn manuscript in 3 hours. A lot of time was wasted.
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n/a
124 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2024
Motivation:
One of the worst submissions I've experienced. Four months for nothing
Drawn back before first editorial decision after 287.0 days
Drawn back
2023
10.0 weeks
13.0 weeks
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2 reports
Accepted
2021
n/a
n/a
39 days
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Rejected (im.)
2020
n/a
n/a
14 days
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n/a
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Rejected (im.)
2016
Motivation:
Study journal contents before submission
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n/a
13 days
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Rejected (im.)
2016
Motivation:
The editor in chief informed me that he turns down ~70% of submissions without peer review (after he reads them), and that my paper was not a tight enough fit for their primary audience of biodiversity scientists. I hoped it could work based on a few other papers similar to me published in the journal, but of course I respect the prerogative of the editor and appreciated the fast rejection.