Review-speed indicates the average time from the day of submission to the 1st decision (revise/reject) during the years 2019-2024 and the average time from the day of submitting the revised version to the final decision (accept/reject) excluding desk-rejections:
|
Year |
Initial paper submission-to-1st decision (weeks) |
Revised paper submission-to-final Decision (weeks) |
|
2019 |
4.9 |
2.0 |
|
2020 |
5.2 |
2.7 |
|
2021 |
5.1 |
1.8 |
| 2022 | 5.3 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 5.6 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 5.0 | 2.0 |
The acceptance rates (excluding desk-rejections) during the years 2019-2024 are:
|
Year |
* Total number of papers that were desk-rejected |
Total number of papers sent for revision (a) |
Total number of papers accepted (b) |
Acceptance rate (b/a) |
|
2019 |
56 |
51 |
20 |
39.2% |
|
2020 |
129 |
60 |
29 |
48.3% |
|
2021 |
404 |
73 |
29 |
39.7% |
| 2022 | 339 | 69 | 29 | 42.0% |
| 2023 | 580 | 68 | 27 | 39.7% |
| 2024 | 703 | 81 | 31 | 38.3% |
* Desk-rejected papers are the manuscripts rejected upon submission because they are out of the scope of the journal, violate publication ethics, have bad quality, or seem to have limited contribution.
