Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
16.6 weeks
16.6 weeks
n/a
2 reports
Rejected
2025
Motivation:
I am not convinced that the reviewers were familiar with the topic or the journal's requirements on manuscripts. One reviewer criticised that our abstract was "too long, overly detailed". But the word count (218) is below the journal's limit for abstracts (250). Another reviewer criticised us for citing references that are written in Chinese, suggesting that such references "may not be accessible or appropriate for an English-language journal". Note that there is no explicit prohibition on citing non-English sources in submission guidlines. Also the references do have enough English metadata that an English reader can understand what we cited (translated title + English abstract), even if they can’t read the page fluently. Critically, we do not understand why it is an issue that we cite Chinese sources in an English-language journal, especially one whose core mission is China-focused.
22.1 weeks
26.6 weeks
n/a
1 reports
Accepted
2022
8.7 weeks
10.7 weeks
n/a
3 reports
Accepted
2015