Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
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n/a
4 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2023
Motivation: The manuscript was desk rejected within minutes of being "Under Review", apparently after being reviewed by "a team of professional editors", the Editor and an Editorial Board member. (It takes me a few days to read and provide a thorough review of any manuscript and so this speed was, euphemistically, impressive!) Frankly, I do not think this was anything beyond shunting a good paper to another venue of the publisher with the view of boosting the IF of that venue. This is a current practice with many publishers and it is a joke (a bad one).
9.7 weeks
12.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
4
Accepted
2022
11.9 weeks
11.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
2
1
Rejected
2021
Motivation: The review process was painfully slow. The review opinion was split but the editor rejected.
6.9 weeks
7.6 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
4
Accepted
2020
n/a
n/a
2 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2020
2.7 weeks
4.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
5
Accepted
2020
Motivation: Best Review process and quick as compare to other journals
n/a
n/a
4 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2020
n/a
n/a
7 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2018
Motivation: We do not feel the manuscript was throughly assessed, rejection was due to it not being in the top 10%. It is not clear what top 10% means if work is rejected even even though it does not have a strong precedent and had potentially very broad applications. The recommendation was to transfer to Org Biomol Chem. It appears to us that the manuscript only received a cursory look (no details on why it is not in the top 10%). A response from us to the editor's decision was not followed through in a timely manner, requiring a reminder. At the time of the reminder, we decided to withdraw the manuscript and submit to another venue that has been much fairer in its handling of our manuscripts, and to avoid further delays. It is our view that good papers are shunted to other journals within a publisher to promote IFs of those journals.
n/a
n/a
5 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2017