Reviews for "IEEE Access"

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IEEE Access n/a n/a 9.0
days		 n/a n/a n/a Rejected (im.) 2021
Motivation: No reason given for a desk rejection. Not too happy about such an outcome.
IEEE Access 4.0
weeks		 4.6
weeks		 n/a 4 5
(excellent)		 5
(excellent)		 Accepted 2020
Motivation: This time the reviews were very professional and helped to improve the quality of the paper.
IEEE Access 5.6
weeks		 7.9
weeks		 n/a 2 4
(very good)		 4
(very good)		 Accepted 2020
Motivation: Received great comments. The overall period, from submission to publication, is longer then what I expected. However, its worth it
IEEE Access 6.0
weeks		 6.0
weeks		 n/a 3 1
(bad)		 1
(bad)		 Drawn back 2020
Motivation: 1/3 accept: short but okay comments and suggestions, 2/3 reject with resubmit: one-liners saying that the paper needs a lot of work without specifying any concrete changes, missing references or problems that need to be addressed
IEEE Access 2.0
weeks		 3.1
weeks		 n/a 4 4
(very good)		 4
(very good)		 Accepted 2020
Motivation: The review process is clear and helpful.
The reviewer's comments help us to improve the manuscript.
And finally, it was accepted to publish.
IEEE Access 3.0
weeks		 5.0
weeks		 n/a 1 5
(excellent)		 4
(very good)		 Accepted 2019
IEEE Access n/a n/a 10.0
days		 n/a n/a n/a Rejected (im.) 2019
Motivation: Don't waste your time for the IEEE Access!! It was the worst submission experience in my 7-years career.
We have submitted paper to the Special Section about machine learning. The title of our paper was a perfect match for the scope listed in call for papers. Imagine our surprise when we have received the "out of scope" reject.
We have asked for an explanation, and after a month they have repeated that the paper is "out of scope". We have then asked for an explanation once more, and after a week they have replied that the reject decision is reverted (without explaining anything) and the paper will be considered (reviewed).
After 3-weeks we have received the decision - reject without possibility to resubmit. There were two reviews. One quite constructive and merit (and suggesting the resubmission). The second one, on the other hand, was completely incorrect: the reviewer said that only binary classification was performed, while we have done multi-class classification (10 experiments) and binary classification (2 experiments). Furthermore, the reviewer said data set with more than 5k observations should be used, meanwhile we have used 8 data set with far more than 5k observations! There were 3-4 more comments like this (completely wrong or very general).
IEEE Access 3.9
weeks		 3.9
weeks		 n/a 2 4
(very good)		 5
(excellent)		 Accepted 2019
IEEE Access 3.0
weeks		 7.7
weeks		 n/a 3 4
(very good)		 4
(very good)		 Accepted 2019
IEEE Access 6.0
weeks		 9.9
weeks		 n/a 3 2
(moderate)		 2
(moderate)		 Accepted 2018
Motivation: My paper was first rejected to address the reviewers concerns. The reviews were not of very good quality and they asked me to add their own citations. After I resubmitted, the chief editor made a mistake and rejected my paper. I had then to contact him to reverse his decision, and after a while my paper was accepted.
IEEE Access 8.6
weeks		 8.6
weeks		 n/a 2 2
(moderate)		 2
(moderate)		 Rejected 2018
Motivation: The reviewers found my paper not interesting. However, they didn't prove with references that it was not original compared to other works.
IEEE Access 5.7
weeks		 5.7
weeks		 n/a 2 3
(good)		 1
(bad)		 Rejected 2018
Motivation: The journal has a binary peer-review. I received two reviews that were different. The first reviewer accepted the paper and the second one rejected. The editor rejected the paper, without giving the opportunity of a re-submission, which I didn't understand due to the comments of the first reviewer. The main reason was that is was the sequence of another paper that was not already published.