Energy Science & Engineering

received: 17-Dec-2021
major revision: 14-Feb-2022
submit the revision: 05-Apr-2022
minor revision: 19-Apr-2022
submit the revision: 19-Apr-2022
minor revision: 25-Apr-2022
submit the revision: 26-Apr-2022
accepted: 04-May-2022

First review by two reviewers, who provided over 10 modification suggestions (most of them were not difficult to address, but a few required a significant amount of time to modify). The editor requested major revisions. In the second review, one reviewer agreed to accept the paper, while the other provided three minor suggestions. The editor requested minor revisions. After returning the revised paper, a few days later, the same reviewer raised a few formatting issues (stating that fixing these formatting issues would lead to acceptance). The editor requested minor revisions again. Once the requested modifications were made and the paper was resubmitted, the editor did not send it for further review and directly accepted it (although it is possible that the editor only processes submissions once a week, resulting in an eight-day delay in notification). Overall, the submission process did not pose significant difficulties, and it seems that the editor values the opinions of the reviewers.

Posted on March 1, 2022, and received major revisions on March 10th. There were a total of five reviewers, one accepted the submission directly, one rejected it directly, and three requested major revisions. The editor provided detailed revision suggestions, greatly improving the quality of the article. The revised manuscript was submitted one month later and accepted directly half a month after that.

Although this journal is classified as Q3, it has an impact factor of 4+. When the submission was made, the journal was classified as Q2, but by the time the manuscript was published, it had dropped to Q3. However, due to the favorable comments from the reviewers, there is a positive sentiment towards this journal, and hopes are high for it to rise to Q2/Q1 soon!