Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
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15 days
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Rejected (im.)
2025
Motivation: The editorial decision process dragged on for an extended period, which reflects poorly on their efficiency. They attributed the delay to a staff shortage, but this excuse hardly justifies the lack of timely communication or action. Such a prolonged wait, coupled with their apparent disorganization, comes across as unprofessional and undermines confidence in their editorial operations. It’s crucial to communicate this issue to researchers and authors intending to submit through the website, ensuring they are aware of potential delays. Transparency about this problem can help manage expectations, allowing submitters to plan accordingly and avoid frustration with an otherwise opaque and sluggish review process.
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23 days
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Rejected (im.)
2025
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n/a
18 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2023
Motivation: Too long a wait period for a desk reject. Very generic reason given for rejection. In the future, I would not submit to Nature Neuroscience unless I am relatively much more sure about acceptance.
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8 days
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Rejected (im.)
2023
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6 days
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Rejected (im.)
2022
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18 days
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Rejected (im.)
2021
Motivation: Without trying to sound bitter that the paper was desk rejected (which of course can happen), my impression is that Nature Neuroscience is very, very slow relative to comparable journals (like Neuron, for example).
4.3 weeks
4.3 weeks
n/a
3 reports
1
0
Accepted
2019
n/a
n/a
23 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2022
Motivation: Editor apologized for the delay.
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n/a
16 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2021
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n/a
12 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2021
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8 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2020
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n/a
18 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2020
Motivation: The feedback from the editor to justify the rejection was rather generic and not very useful. It would have been very useful to describe specific issues to be resolved or addressed by complementary experiments to make the manuscript potentially suitable to be sent to reviewers.
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n/a
13 days
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n/a
Rejected (im.)
2018
Motivation: we had corrected an over- and mis-interpreted paper previously published in nature neuroscience, yet editor thought the topic was not in the scope of the journal. (i dont want to disrespect authors published in nature neuro) but does that mean nature neuro publishes only wrong paper or what ?
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n/a
5 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2014
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n/a
22 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2019
Motivation: Really long for a desk reject... given other people's experiences I will skip nature neuro in the future unless I'm really sure it will go through. Could definitely have gone out for review somewhere else by now.
n/a
n/a
8 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2018
Motivation: Overall, pleased with the process. Submission was straightforward, editorial response was swift. Also provided a reasonable explanation for the editorial rejection.
n/a
n/a
5 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2018
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n/a
22 days
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n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
2017
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n/a
29 days
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n/a
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Rejected (im.)
2016
Motivation: 4 weeks for editorial decision not to send for external review was way too lengthy.
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8 days
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n/a
Rejected (im.)
2015