Dur. 1st rev. rnd
Tot. handling time
Imm. rejection time
Num. rev. reports
Report quality
Overall rating
Outcome
Year
4.6 weeks
4.9 weeks
n/a
2 reports
4
4
Accepted
2016
5.4 weeks
6.1 weeks
n/a
3 reports
4
5
Accepted
2015
Motivation: Amazingly fast reviewing times considering that we got very thorough reviews by absolute experts in the field. The reviews helped us to improve the paper a lot. The journal editor was also very helpful, thinking along with us about images and other aspects of the paper. Although the paper could have been sent out for review after revisions, the editor informed us that the detailed action letter and the strength of the revisions made this unnecessary.

Note that articles for TiCS are generally commissioned by the editor. We were invited to submit based on a strong presubmission proposal.