Timeline for Is two years without a referee report normal?
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| Jan 30, 2023 at 8:36 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | OK, you’re completely right, tomorrow I’ll start reviewing the paper! | |
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| Dec 6, 2018 at 1:37 | comment | added | user92646 | I am wondering how things ended. I just got a rejection from a top journal after submitting to it for 8 months. I didn't get any report. They said "your interesting paper should certainly be published but we receive many excellent papers so we have to make hard decisions''. They also said it took so much time because of the MOVE of the editorial office. However, I can see papers were published during this 8 months. Unbelievable! Being rejected is normal. However, the reason they gave me is really terrible. | |
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| May 7, 2014 at 9:43 | vote | accept | Reza Rezazadegan | ||
| May 6, 2014 at 9:15 | comment | added | user23860 | See also my question which is related to your problem at the following page: academia.stackexchange.com/q/8574/4511 | |
| May 6, 2014 at 9:14 | comment | added | user23860 | Although you have already got some insightful comments and answers here, your question fits better in academia.stackexchange.com. | |
| May 6, 2014 at 4:13 | comment | added | Deane Yang | I find the fact that they have tried six different referees a lot more impressive than the two year wait. A lot of editors might have given up by now. You might want to chat briefly with the editor by phone to see if there is anything you can do to help move things along faster. People aren't always willing to reveal too much in an email. | |
| May 5, 2014 at 19:54 | comment | added | Liviu Nicolaescu | This is not uncommon and there is not much that you can do. It's important not to get discouraged because it happens to other people, including myself. Be persistent! | |
| May 5, 2014 at 19:42 | comment | added | Christian Remling | Nothing is unheard of on this subject (I could share some horror stories, but it would probably bore most folks here as they've experienced similar things themselves). Stay calm and polite, and you can always withdraw and resubmit to a different journal. | |
| May 5, 2014 at 19:24 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | It happened to me too. After two years, the editor sent me back the paper without referee, saying that they were sorry to not accepting papers because of a long backlog. | |
| May 5, 2014 at 18:48 | comment | added | Andy Putman | This kind of thing is hard to control. The average time to get a report for my papers seems to be about a year, but on many occasions is has taken longer. After a year has past, my usual practice is to ping the editor every 2 months. Other than that, there is not much you can do. Certainly getting angry is not likely to have much of an effect. | |
| May 5, 2014 at 18:36 | answer | added | Alexandre Eremenko | timeline score: 19 | |
| May 5, 2014 at 18:27 | comment | added | Alex Degtyarev | First, this must be a VERY good journal: sending a paper to six referees at once---this is what is really unheard of! Second, as an author, you have the right to withdraw the paper; then you are free to resubmit it to another place. In my opinion, 2 years is indeed way too much! | |
| May 5, 2014 at 18:23 | history | asked | Reza Rezazadegan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |