Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
n/a
n/a
11 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2021
Motivation: Desk rejection for being out of scope. However, the journal’s webpage and the Elsevier journal finder suggested otherwise.
32.9 weeks
34.9 weeks
n/a
3 reports
5
3
Accepted
2021
Motivation: After the first round, the article had a status of completion of the review for 3 months. We contacted the journal manager twice. Then we wrote to the editor-in-chief and received the article for revision in 1 hour.
30.3 weeks
46.6 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
3
Accepted
2017
Motivation: The process was quite slow. The first review round took over half a year which is way too long. The editor had a good touch and the reviewers were knowledgeable.