Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
n/a
n/a
4 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2024
Motivation: My article was a mechanistic study with crystal structure and to support the claim there was biochemical analysis also. They rejected by saying "it lacks the kind of deep mechanistic insight into fundamental molecular or biochemical processes". In contrast to their view, the paper is all about atomic level mechanistic analysis with crystal structure and kinetic analysis. I really dont have any issue with the rejection as it do not fit the reputation or whatever. But I really felt cheated with the reason they gave. It clearly shows that they have not read the article at all.
4.3 weeks
9.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
2023
Motivation: The reviewers did an excellent job by thoroughly questioning the experimental methods and interpretation of results. This brought us to perform additional analyses, that actually confirmed that our original data handling gave better and more consolidating results. We do not totally regret the time loss, because we learned a lot on different ways of data handling during this rather scary setback.
3.4 weeks
10.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
4
Accepted
2022
4.0 weeks
4.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
3
Rejected
2021
Motivation: One of the reviewers comment was constructive to the manuscript, but the second reviewer was pathetic.
3.0 weeks
3.3 weeks
n/a
3 reports
5
5
Accepted
2017
3.9 weeks
7.3 weeks
n/a
3 reports
3
2
Accepted
2015
2.7 weeks
2.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
2
3
Rejected
2017
2.9 weeks
2.9 weeks
n/a
1 reports
3
4
Rejected
2015
Motivation: I appreciate the rapid review of JBC. That is why I gave them a 4. I am a little concerned with the reviewers. Sometimes the reviews are reasonable and sometimes they are not. It feels like the reviewers are selected randomly and may or may not have appropriate expertise for the submitted manuscript based on their responses.
2.0 weeks
2.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
5
Accepted
2010
6.0 weeks
11.0 weeks
n/a
2 reports
5
4
Accepted
2013
n/a
n/a
3 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2014
Motivation: The journal considered our manuscript "out of scope" and thus rejected it.
The process was fast and relatively clear.
2.7 weeks
2.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
3
3
Rejected
2013
Motivation: Turn around time with reviewers was very quick, queries on initial submission were answered on the same day. Automated submission system is very efficient.