Given the longer and longer wait time to give the first decision to accept or not a paper (by the editors), I would like to ask you :
As a reviewer, how long do you usually take to examine a paper? And what is your acceptance or refusal rate to review a paper (not the rate of reject or accept its publication). Thank you.
Dear Mohamed,
I usually decline the invitation if it refers to a journal which does not belong to a known scientific publisher (Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor&Francis, Copernicus, MDPI, Oxford Press, Cambridge Press, Akademiai Kiado etc.). Although, I have to note, that the invitation from this "unknown" publishers very frequently refers to a manuscript which is totally out of my expertise.
While, I usually accept the invitation from the journals belonging to the mentioned scientific publishers and fitting to my area of expertise. However, I decline the invitation if I'm already working on a review.
To estimate the rate, I think, I decline a third of the received invitations. In average I prepare ~10 reviews per year.
best wishes,
Zoltan
I'm frequently asked by the editor to complete my reviews in 4 or 6 weeks. However, I don't take that long because the actual reviewing process doesn't take anywhere near that long. I like to clear my desk of all tasks as soon as they come in, so I'm usually done with my reviews in about a week. But, I don't think this speeds up the process much because the other 2-3 reviewers take much longer, and then the editor takes some time to make a decision.
the time allotted for the examination of an article is usually 45 days.
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