Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
18.7 weeks
24.4 weeks
n/a
1 reports
Accepted
Motivation:
TP is a reasonably prestigious journal, but they took 4 months finding reviewers. By the time the paper is actually 'in press', it would have been > 7 months since submission. The reviewers' comments were OK, but didn't really add to the quality of the final product. Overall, given all of this and the ridiculous open access fees charged by Nature-springer for this journal (£3000), My lab won't be submitting here again. I can't justify the cost to the funders and the prestige of the journal isn't worth the long delays. I think Journal of Neuroscience (for an apprioriately neuroscience-focused psychiatry paper) or J Affective Disorders or Int J Neuropsychopharmacol are better options.
n/a
n/a
36 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
Motivation:
It took 35 days for our manuscript to be seen by an Editor only to decide upon a desk reject.
3.9 weeks
7.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
Accepted
8.6 weeks
13.4 weeks
n/a
2 reports
Accepted
17.4 weeks
25.4 weeks
n/a
4 reports
Accepted
Motivation:
The quality of the reviews was good, some even very good and useful. The downside was with the extremely long process. It took the journal more than 4 months to find reviewers. Overall, it took exactly one year to publish the manuscript with only two revision rounds at this journal.
16.7 weeks
16.7 weeks
n/a
2 reports
Rejected
7.9 weeks
30.3 weeks
n/a
2 reports
Accepted
Motivation:
The submission process was easy and relatively fast. The reviews were reasonable and timely, particularly in the revision process.
n/a
n/a
4 days
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rejected (im.)
Motivation:
Not the result we hoped for, but it was a really fast response.