JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

Using machine learning for the recognition of forest leaves. The first submission to a SCI journal took more than three months, but overall it went smoothly and I am satisfied with it.
December 24, 2020: Submitted.
January 6, 2021: Received first-round review comments quickly. Two reviewers, major revision and minor revision.
February 4, 2021: Responded to first-round review comments.
March 18, 2021: Received second-round review comments. One reviewer raised four questions, patiently made revisions and provided responses.
April 4, 2021: Responded to second-round review comments.
April 5, 2021: Accepted.
Submitted in a rush before New Year's, so there were several errors that were not checked and corrected. Fortunately, the reviewer for major revision was quite interested and raised a lot of questions, which helped enrich the content. The reviewer for minor revision pointed out several grammar and language issues. I didn't hire professional proofreading (too expensive), so I repeatedly considered and modified the language myself.
Only the first reviewer provided some second-round review comments. This time they mentioned that the content was too long and the language needed to be refined. -_-|| I continued to ponder the language throughout the article and reduced several hundred words.
Accepted the day after submission.

Unable to urge, I submitted my article on July 20, 2022, and it underwent external review on July 26. On October 3, it showed that the review was completed, but I had to wait for a month. Finally, on November 2, the editor returned it to me (the system sent it, and I don't know who the editor is). I made revisions for 20 days and returned it on November 22. It wasn't until December 17 that it was sent for a second review, and I still haven't received any feedback from the second review until now (I searched for ways to withdraw the submission but couldn't find any). It is said that after acceptance, I will have to wait another month for proofreading, and then wait another one or two months for it to go online. Oh, by the way, there seems to be some editing processing fee, which is over ten thousand. Ha ha ha, it's better to go with MDPI's "forests". Although it is expensive, at least it is fast and also in the Chinese Academy of Sciences' second zone.