Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
Immediately accepted after 8.7 weeks
Accepted (im.)
2014
9.1 weeks
12.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
Drawn back
2013
Motivation:
The submitted manuscript described a novel research not covered in any prior publications. The reviewers were clearly incompetent in this field and, without suggesting any relevant references, kept adding comments which showed poor understanding of the topic. We decided to withdraw the manuscript. The manuscript was published after 3 months in another Elsevier journal with similar impact factor as the Journal of Membrane Science.