Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
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7 days
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n/a
Rejected (im.)
2023
Motivation: quick rejection
n/a
n/a
7 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2021
n/a
n/a
11 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2021
Motivation:

Thank you for submitting your manuscript entitled 'xxxxxx'. Having considered it carefully and discussed it with my colleagues, I am sorry to say that we are not able to consider it for publication in Genome Biology.

As you may know, at Genome Biology we do consider it important that new findings in the submitted work represent a significant advance over previous studies and are of interest to a wide readership of biologists. I should also explain that we receive many more manuscripts than we can publish and our threshold for certain types of studies is raised gradually as specific fields evolve. Although we appreciate that the reported new findings are likely to be of interest to others working in the field, I am afraid we do not feel that the findings represent the kind of significant new insights that would warrant publication in Genome Biology, which is aimed at a broad readership of biologists. We would be looking for more significant follow-up.
21.7 weeks
24.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
2
Accepted
2021
Motivation: Initial round of review took 5 months due to a late reviewer. The editor waited for months before finding someone else.
n/a
n/a
2 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2020
n/a
n/a
6 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2019
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n/a
3 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2020
Motivation: Very quick response time (imm rejection). The decision was shortly explained and valid arguments were given.
13.0 weeks
13.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Rejected
2019
5.9 weeks
5.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
1
2
Rejected
2019
n/a
n/a
10 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2019
n/a
n/a
2 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2018
Motivation: Very quick editorial response. Reason for rejection was: "Although we appreciate that the reported new findings are likely to be of interest to others working in the field, I am afraid we do not feel that the findings represent the kind of significant new insights that would warrant publication in Genome Biology, which is aimed at a broad readership of biologists."
n/a
n/a
5 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2018
6.0 weeks
9.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
5
Accepted
2017
n/a
n/a
6 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2017
16.7 weeks
47.1 weeks
n/a
1 reports
2
0
Rejected
2013
Motivation: It was extremely slow (4 months per round) getting reviews back every time, even though we always submitted our revisions in less than a month. In the end we were rejected "because the process had gone on for so long", even though the slow-down was not on our end. We also only had a single reviewer every time, which I have never experienced before or since. I found the treatment to be unfair and disrespectful of our time.
n/a
n/a
9 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2017
5.3 weeks
6.9 weeks
n/a
1 reports
4
3
Accepted
2016