Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
34.4 weeks
38.1 weeks
n/a
1 reports
Accepted
2025
Motivation:
Although the eventual result was acceptance of my article, I feel the review process was unprofessional and unethical. After a very lengthy first-round review, after prodding the editorial contact, I eventually received a single review that was clearly AI-generated. (Not only did it feel AI-generated but an AI detector strongly confirmed my suspicions.) Although the points were quite sensible, I consider it unethical to give confidential manuscripts to generative AI, especially without declaring to the authors that this was done. This cannot genuinely be called "peer" review.