Dur. 1st rev. rnd
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Imm. rejection time
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Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
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4 days
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Rejected (im.)
2020
Motivation: I submitted my manuscript which was based on nanocomposites, which is well within the journal's scope. don't know why it was rejected. At the same time there was an article published in the same journal, it had several typos , the title included. I appealed to the editor, but there was no response. if the journal is able to publish such articles with typos I doubt the quality of Elsevier. much more shocking was that the typo ridden article had several citations
9.4 weeks
17.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
2020
Motivation: The journal is very reputed with 7.6 impact factor. If the topic of the journal aligns with your manuscript, they will take it very seriously. Reviewers were very good. They suggested some major changes and it definitely improved my paper a lot. One of the factors slowing down the process in my case was the editorial speed. The manuscript was 'with editor' for more than 2 months in the whole process. Other than this, it was pretty good experience. Would recommend the journal.