Accountability
Journal statistics
Published because the numbers are the only way to tell a strict journal from a permissive one, and because a venue that charges a fee owes its authors the odds before they pay.
- Submissions received
- 412
- Desk rejected, free of charge
- 268 (65.0%)
- Taken to full evaluation
- 144 (35.0%)
- Published
- 3 (0.7% of all submissions)
- Rejected after full evaluation
- 0
- Withdrawn by the author
- 0
- Median revision rounds
- 2
- Median days to first decision
- 6
All submissions, Volume 1 to date.
Refused on title, abstract, and keywords. No fee taken.
Passed desk screening and went through reference checking and the three editorial remits.
2.1% of evaluated manuscripts. Paying a fee does not buy acceptance.
Refused once the manuscript itself had been read, after the fee stage.
Closed at the author's request. Any fee already taken is not refunded.
Between first decision and acceptance.
From submission to the desk-screening decision.
These figures count this journal's own editorial activity, updated as each decision is taken, with the founding volume's totals included. They are not a metric of impact, of which we have none — see the transparency statement.