Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
5.3 weeks
13.6 weeks
n/a
3 reports
Rejected
2023
Motivation:
The editor acted as a postman, delivering messages between the reviewers and authors; did not bother to review the manuscript and provide feedback, or make a decision when was needed. After the first review round it was very obvious that two reviewers said accept and one reject. Instead of making a decision then, the editor just forwarded the comments to the authors, without providing any input of theirs. There was not really anything to address; the one that was suggesting reject was not providing feedforward, just stating why the paper needs to be declined, the reasons having to do with things that cannot be changed (such as not enough demographic data collected). In cases such as this it is the job of the editor to make a decision.